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2021 San Miguel County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in San Miguel County, NM went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1663rd 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 San Miguel 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 | July 2, 2021 01:00 | July 2, 2021 07:15 | 6h 15m | 4,019 | 16K |
| 2 | July 21, 2021 00:00 | July 21, 2021 03:15 | 3h 15m | 2,308 | 6,922 |
| 3 | July 5, 2021 23:15 | July 6, 2021 10:45 | 11h 30m | 2,293 | 786 |
| 4 | August 12, 2021 16:45 | August 12, 2021 18:00 | 1h 15m | 2,266 | 2,832 |
| 5 | May 5, 2021 21:00 | May 5, 2021 22:30 | 1h 30m | 2,245 | 3,368 |
| 6 | December 15, 2021 15:30 | December 16, 2021 01:00 | 9h 30m | 2,031 | 1,207 |
| 7 | February 14, 2021 14:15 | February 14, 2021 18:30 | 4h 15m | 1,752 | 6,081 |
| 8 | September 4, 2021 20:45 | September 5, 2021 03:15 | 6h 30m | 231 | 782 |
| 9 | June 3, 2021 01:45 | June 3, 2021 02:45 | 1h | 145 | 145 |
| 10 | April 2, 2021 19:30 | April 3, 2021 00:30 | 5h | 144 | 464 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 12 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 San Miguel 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 |
| Mora-San Miguel Elec Coop | 2018 | 7.2 hrs | - | 6.8 hrs | - |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer 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 ÷ 11,786 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. San Miguel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Miguel 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/san-miguel-county