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2025 Hidalgo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Hidalgo County, NM went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 5,758 customer-hours (New Mexico average 3.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 28 New Mexico counties and 2355th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hidalgo County, 2025
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 12, 2025 21:15 | September 12, 2025 23:45 | 2h 30m | 1,193 | 322 |
| 2 | August 13, 2025 00:00 | August 13, 2025 09:15 | 9h 15m | 746 | 2,374 |
| 3 | March 3, 2025 22:15 | March 4, 2025 00:30 | 2h 15m | 570 | 1,023 |
| 4 | July 26, 2025 21:00 | July 27, 2025 00:15 | 3h 15m | 126 | 380 |
| 5 | May 25, 2025 19:15 | May 25, 2025 21:15 | 2h | 95 | 159 |
| 6 | July 4, 2025 00:15 | July 4, 2025 03:15 | 3h | 94 | 266 |
| 7 | August 26, 2025 22:00 | August 27, 2025 00:15 | 2h 15m | 94 | 212 |
| 8 | July 13, 2025 23:15 | July 14, 2025 00:45 | 1h 30m | 62 | 90 |
| 9 | June 18, 2025 19:30 | June 18, 2025 22:15 | 2h 45m | 43 | 118 |
| 10 | August 1, 2025 02:45 | August 1, 2025 07:30 | 4h 45m | 33 | 142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 4 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 Hidalgo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/new-mexico/hidalgo-county