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2022 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 55.2 hours, a total of 495K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 65th 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 Lincoln 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 12, 2022 17:30 | April 17, 2022 12:00 | 4d 18h | 12,230 | 462K |
| 2 | June 22, 2022 17:15 | June 22, 2022 22:00 | 4h 45m | 2,756 | 1,395 |
| 3 | May 20, 2022 20:45 | May 21, 2022 21:15 | 1d | 1,837 | 2,986 |
| 4 | June 3, 2022 01:00 | June 3, 2022 14:00 | 13h | 1,224 | 887 |
| 5 | May 29, 2022 20:45 | May 30, 2022 05:30 | 8h 45m | 1,010 | 2,072 |
| 6 | December 28, 2022 18:15 | December 29, 2022 11:00 | 16h 45m | 811 | 7,523 |
| 7 | December 3, 2022 23:15 | December 4, 2022 03:45 | 4h 30m | 697 | 785 |
| 8 | August 10, 2022 21:30 | August 11, 2022 00:45 | 3h 15m | 419 | 977 |
| 9 | November 8, 2022 00:00 | November 8, 2022 00:15 | 15m | 418 | 105 |
| 10 | November 10, 2022 01:00 | November 10, 2022 06:15 | 5h 15m | 418 | 1,256 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 24 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,967 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county