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2023 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 2,404 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2704th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hidalgo County, 2023
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 3, 2023 21:45 | April 4, 2023 00:45 | 3h | 497 | 1,155 |
| 2 | June 5, 2023 21:15 | June 5, 2023 23:45 | 2h 30m | 213 | 533 |
| 3 | May 14, 2023 18:15 | May 14, 2023 22:30 | 4h 15m | 59 | 223 |
| 4 | July 22, 2023 01:15 | July 22, 2023 03:30 | 2h 15m | 32 | 63 |
| 5 | December 26, 2023 10:15 | December 26, 2023 17:15 | 7h | 27 | 142 |
| 6 | June 17, 2023 18:15 | June 17, 2023 21:30 | 3h 15m | 19 | 47 |
| 7 | April 8, 2023 03:30 | April 8, 2023 07:30 | 4h | 8 | 22 |
| 8 | March 9, 2023 17:15 | March 9, 2023 19:00 | 1h 45m | 6 | 11 |
| 9 | October 19, 2023 15:30 | October 19, 2023 20:15 | 4h 45m | 5 | 20 |
| 10 | February 17, 2023 19:45 | February 17, 2023 20:45 | 1h | 4 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.84 | 1.5 hrs | 0.72 |
| 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 n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/new-mexico/hidalgo-county