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2022 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 4,875 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2355th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hidalgo County, 2022
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 22, 2022 22:15 | April 23, 2022 00:45 | 2h 30m | 1,594 | 3,587 |
| 2 | July 29, 2022 18:30 | July 29, 2022 22:30 | 4h | 102 | 340 |
| 3 | September 22, 2022 22:45 | September 23, 2022 01:45 | 3h | 71 | 198 |
| 4 | July 22, 2022 01:30 | July 22, 2022 05:45 | 4h 15m | 60 | 229 |
| 5 | September 15, 2022 02:00 | September 15, 2022 12:30 | 10h 30m | 21 | 211 |
| 6 | September 23, 2022 16:30 | September 23, 2022 19:30 | 3h | 9 | 27 |
| 7 | April 28, 2022 22:45 | April 29, 2022 01:15 | 2h 30m | 8 | 20 |
| 8 | June 22, 2022 04:30 | June 22, 2022 06:30 | 2h | 8 | 14 |
| 9 | August 4, 2022 06:45 | August 4, 2022 10:00 | 3h 15m | 8 | 26 |
| 10 | September 25, 2022 14:45 | September 25, 2022 16:45 | 2h | 8 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Hidalgo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.7 hrs | 0.86 | 1.7 hrs | 0.78 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley Elec 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,651 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo County, NM annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/new-mexico/hidalgo-county