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2023 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1741st 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 Lincoln 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 | July 9, 2023 00:00 | July 9, 2023 01:00 | 1h | 1,848 | 953 |
| 2 | February 26, 2023 19:45 | February 28, 2023 08:15 | 1d 12h | 1,798 | 13K |
| 3 | February 22, 2023 22:00 | February 24, 2023 20:30 | 1d 22h | 540 | 2,641 |
| 4 | June 27, 2023 02:30 | June 27, 2023 06:00 | 3h 30m | 458 | 1,490 |
| 5 | May 15, 2023 11:30 | May 15, 2023 21:00 | 9h 30m | 430 | 652 |
| 6 | September 10, 2023 03:45 | September 10, 2023 07:45 | 4h | 427 | 1,708 |
| 7 | May 13, 2023 10:00 | May 13, 2023 15:00 | 5h | 290 | 1,343 |
| 8 | December 4, 2023 23:00 | December 5, 2023 01:15 | 2h 15m | 287 | 93 |
| 9 | August 25, 2023 18:00 | August 26, 2023 00:45 | 6h 45m | 193 | 314 |
| 10 | March 16, 2023 05:45 | March 16, 2023 15:30 | 9h 45m | 177 | 920 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 16 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Lincoln 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 |
| 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 n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2023; 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, 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/lincoln-county