County annual report · FIPS 35029
2023 Luna County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Luna County, NM went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2439th 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 Luna 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 | May 11, 2023 13:45 | May 12, 2023 05:15 | 15h 30m | 3,300 | 3,296 |
| 2 | May 19, 2023 23:15 | May 20, 2023 03:45 | 4h 30m | 1,686 | 5,572 |
| 3 | July 12, 2023 01:00 | July 12, 2023 05:30 | 4h 30m | 1,565 | 2,047 |
| 4 | February 22, 2023 18:15 | February 23, 2023 08:45 | 14h 30m | 1,311 | 5,617 |
| 5 | March 16, 2023 11:00 | March 16, 2023 14:45 | 3h 45m | 1,125 | 2,276 |
| 6 | July 25, 2023 22:00 | July 25, 2023 22:45 | 45m | 1,054 | 266 |
| 7 | September 20, 2023 22:30 | September 21, 2023 00:45 | 2h 15m | 583 | 772 |
| 8 | July 13, 2023 16:30 | July 13, 2023 17:15 | 45m | 415 | 106 |
| 9 | February 13, 2023 19:45 | February 13, 2023 20:00 | 15m | 395 | 99 |
| 10 | November 18, 2023 17:45 | November 18, 2023 18:00 | 15m | 325 | 81 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Luna 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 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 72 min | 0.94 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra 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 ÷ 16,018 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. Luna County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Luna 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/luna-county