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2024 Union County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Union County, NM went without power for an average of 72.7 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (New Mexico average 5.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 135th 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 Union 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 | September 17, 2024 22:30 | September 18, 2024 17:45 | 19h 15m | 1,583 | 30K |
| 2 | August 13, 2024 09:30 | August 13, 2024 09:45 | 15m | 552 | 138 |
| 3 | February 6, 2024 00:45 | February 6, 2024 01:15 | 30m | 9 | 5 |
| 4 | February 26, 2024 17:30 | February 26, 2024 18:30 | 1h | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | February 27, 2024 18:30 | February 27, 2024 19:00 | 30m | 7 | 3 |
| 6 | June 21, 2024 19:30 | June 21, 2024 20:45 | 1h 15m | 7 | 7 |
| 7 | July 31, 2024 15:00 | July 31, 2024 16:30 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 8 | November 8, 2024 19:45 | November 9, 2024 04:30 | 8h 45m | 7 | 40 |
| 9 | November 11, 2024 22:45 | November 12, 2024 00:30 | 1h 45m | 7 | 6 |
| 10 | November 13, 2024 16:45 | November 13, 2024 17:00 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 2 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2024; 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, 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/union-county