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2021 Torrance County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Torrance County, NM went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 683rd 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 Torrance 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 | October 8, 2021 06:15 | October 8, 2021 08:00 | 1h 45m | 4,187 | 7,327 |
| 2 | June 2, 2021 20:15 | June 3, 2021 02:45 | 6h 30m | 4,175 | 8,349 |
| 3 | November 3, 2021 05:45 | November 3, 2021 07:30 | 1h 45m | 1,693 | 430 |
| 4 | October 7, 2021 14:15 | October 7, 2021 14:45 | 30m | 1,308 | 654 |
| 5 | April 2, 2021 19:15 | April 3, 2021 00:30 | 5h 15m | 1,211 | 3,751 |
| 6 | August 27, 2021 22:15 | August 28, 2021 06:15 | 8h | 1,083 | 1,823 |
| 7 | July 23, 2021 20:45 | July 24, 2021 08:00 | 11h 15m | 1,072 | 2,439 |
| 8 | March 12, 2021 16:15 | March 19, 2021 09:00 | 6d 16h | 1,004 | 5,529 |
| 9 | October 7, 2021 16:00 | October 7, 2021 16:30 | 30m | 932 | 466 |
| 10 | October 28, 2021 20:45 | October 29, 2021 16:45 | 20h | 744 | 577 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 50 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Torrance 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro 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 ÷ 6,851 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. Torrance County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Torrance 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/torrance-county