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2021 Sandoval County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Sandoval County, NM went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 139K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2115th 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 Sandoval 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 | April 13, 2021 15:15 | April 13, 2021 19:15 | 4h | 5,617 | 14K |
| 2 | May 31, 2021 19:30 | June 1, 2021 22:15 | 1d 2h | 4,854 | 1,244 |
| 3 | December 15, 2021 10:00 | December 17, 2021 17:15 | 2d 7h | 3,885 | 24K |
| 4 | July 5, 2021 16:00 | July 6, 2021 18:45 | 1d 2h | 3,509 | 3,803 |
| 5 | August 19, 2021 23:00 | August 23, 2021 00:15 | 3d 1h | 2,878 | 1,819 |
| 6 | October 1, 2021 02:30 | October 1, 2021 05:30 | 3h | 2,669 | 1,044 |
| 7 | November 20, 2021 15:15 | November 20, 2021 23:30 | 8h 15m | 2,663 | 2,222 |
| 8 | July 16, 2021 14:15 | July 16, 2021 18:00 | 3h 45m | 2,628 | 6,569 |
| 9 | June 21, 2021 01:00 | June 21, 2021 03:15 | 2h 15m | 2,516 | 2,790 |
| 10 | March 8, 2021 14:15 | March 9, 2021 03:45 | 13h 30m | 2,291 | 2,376 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 62 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Sandoval 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 |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 13.0 hrs | 4.17 | 7.2 hrs | 3.66 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El 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 ÷ 60,725 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. Sandoval County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sandoval 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/sandoval-county