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2021 Luna County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Luna County, NM went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2441st of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Luna County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 13, 2021 21:15 | November 13, 2021 23:00 | 1h 45m | 9,800 | 7,351 |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 17:15 | December 16, 2021 18:45 | 1h 30m | 4,142 | 1,131 |
| 3 | November 14, 2021 01:15 | November 14, 2021 01:45 | 30m | 1,835 | 461 |
| 4 | February 14, 2021 17:15 | February 14, 2021 22:00 | 4h 45m | 1,498 | 379 |
| 5 | July 12, 2021 03:00 | July 12, 2021 23:00 | 20h | 883 | 4,024 |
| 6 | September 26, 2021 02:45 | September 26, 2021 07:00 | 4h 15m | 883 | 2,431 |
| 7 | September 1, 2021 20:45 | September 1, 2021 22:45 | 2h | 877 | 739 |
| 8 | December 12, 2021 07:45 | December 12, 2021 10:15 | 2h 30m | 723 | 489 |
| 9 | September 7, 2021 23:15 | September 8, 2021 03:30 | 4h 15m | 567 | 1,000 |
| 10 | January 14, 2021 00:15 | January 14, 2021 02:00 | 1h 45m | 504 | 631 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 15 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Luna County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NM | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.74 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.21 | 2.5 hrs | 1.11 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 16,018 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Luna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luna County, NM annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/new-mexico/luna-county