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2022 Union County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Union County, NM went without power for an average of 60.8 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 56th 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 Union 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 | March 21, 2022 21:00 | March 21, 2022 23:00 | 2h | 1,451 | 2,540 |
| 2 | April 12, 2022 21:30 | April 13, 2022 00:45 | 3h 15m | 1,450 | 2,177 |
| 3 | May 18, 2022 22:45 | May 19, 2022 09:00 | 10h 15m | 1,448 | 15K |
| 4 | January 8, 2022 10:00 | January 8, 2022 14:30 | 4h 30m | 1,443 | 5,009 |
| 5 | May 23, 2022 23:30 | May 24, 2022 00:15 | 45m | 514 | 258 |
| 6 | March 22, 2022 20:45 | March 22, 2022 21:30 | 45m | 513 | 261 |
| 7 | March 23, 2022 21:00 | March 23, 2022 22:45 | 1h 45m | 179 | 179 |
| 8 | April 28, 2022 15:30 | April 28, 2022 18:15 | 2h 45m | 43 | 71 |
| 9 | July 12, 2022 03:30 | July 12, 2022 04:30 | 1h | 11 | 9 |
| 10 | July 26, 2022 00:30 | July 26, 2022 01:00 | 30m | 11 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 7 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Union 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer 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 ÷ 418 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county