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2025 Lincoln County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lincoln County, NM went without power for an average of 18.0 hours, a total of 161K customer-hours (New Mexico average 3.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 28 New Mexico counties and 414th 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 Lincoln 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 | March 14, 2025 08:00 | March 14, 2025 23:45 | 15h 45m | 8,373 | 23K |
| 2 | March 18, 2025 15:00 | March 19, 2025 09:45 | 18h 45m | 4,931 | 16K |
| 3 | March 1, 2025 14:00 | March 1, 2025 14:45 | 45m | 3,216 | 852 |
| 4 | July 13, 2025 04:45 | July 13, 2025 08:45 | 4h | 2,890 | 4,373 |
| 5 | March 4, 2025 15:15 | March 5, 2025 01:30 | 10h 15m | 2,841 | 4,147 |
| 6 | April 12, 2025 17:15 | April 12, 2025 19:45 | 2h 30m | 2,673 | 4,083 |
| 7 | May 14, 2025 15:00 | May 14, 2025 19:30 | 4h 30m | 2,052 | 5,220 |
| 8 | March 25, 2025 02:15 | March 25, 2025 05:00 | 2h 45m | 2,029 | 1,532 |
| 9 | March 2, 2025 20:15 | March 2, 2025 21:30 | 1h 15m | 2,027 | 2,534 |
| 10 | April 13, 2025 02:45 | April 14, 2025 15:00 | 1d 12h | 1,606 | 1,473 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 86 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/lincoln-county