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2024 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 99.2 hours, a total of 889K customer-hours (New Mexico average 5.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 96th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 17, 2024 23:15 | July 7, 2024 00:45 | 19d 1h | 20,995 | 788K |
| 2 | June 3, 2024 16:15 | June 3, 2024 23:45 | 7h 30m | 3,387 | 13K |
| 3 | November 6, 2024 07:45 | November 6, 2024 09:15 | 1h 30m | 2,262 | 3,393 |
| 4 | July 20, 2024 20:45 | July 26, 2024 20:15 | 5d 23h | 1,665 | 11K |
| 5 | July 10, 2024 20:15 | July 11, 2024 03:00 | 6h 45m | 1,394 | 1,634 |
| 6 | November 9, 2024 16:15 | November 11, 2024 15:15 | 1d 23h | 1,309 | 7,023 |
| 7 | September 24, 2024 14:30 | September 24, 2024 15:30 | 1h | 1,042 | 685 |
| 8 | May 15, 2024 14:00 | May 16, 2024 01:45 | 11h 45m | 1,041 | 1,658 |
| 9 | April 21, 2024 11:00 | April 21, 2024 19:45 | 8h 45m | 1,037 | 5,971 |
| 10 | March 21, 2024 22:30 | March 21, 2024 23:15 | 45m | 1,030 | 773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 56 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.28 | 2.1 hrs | 1.01 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/new-mexico/lincoln-county