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2021 Santa Fe County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Santa Fe County, NM went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 200K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2021st 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 Santa Fe 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 24, 2021 16:00 | July 25, 2021 01:15 | 9h 15m | 11,734 | 13K |
| 2 | September 30, 2021 22:00 | October 2, 2021 03:00 | 1d 5h | 5,149 | 17K |
| 3 | December 11, 2021 00:00 | December 22, 2021 19:00 | 11d 19h | 3,272 | 40K |
| 4 | May 20, 2021 19:30 | May 21, 2021 05:00 | 9h 30m | 3,073 | 18K |
| 5 | August 12, 2021 20:45 | August 14, 2021 03:30 | 1d 6h | 2,476 | 6,847 |
| 6 | July 31, 2021 20:30 | August 1, 2021 04:30 | 8h | 2,354 | 3,190 |
| 7 | April 21, 2021 22:15 | April 22, 2021 23:30 | 1d 1h | 2,054 | 2,103 |
| 8 | February 14, 2021 23:30 | February 15, 2021 13:45 | 14h 15m | 1,937 | 13K |
| 9 | April 28, 2021 19:15 | April 28, 2021 21:00 | 1h 45m | 1,777 | 1,033 |
| 10 | February 14, 2021 16:45 | February 14, 2021 22:30 | 5h 45m | 1,723 | 589 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 84 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Santa Fe 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 |
| Mora-San Miguel Elec Coop | 2018 | 7.2 hrs | - | 6.8 hrs | - |
| Central New Mexico 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 ÷ 78,870 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. Santa Fe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Santa Fe 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/santa-fe-county