Power Out Map
– 0% of Hidalgo out 0 customers out in New Mexico

Power outage history

Hidalgo County New Mexico

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Apr 15, 2024 67% of customers out · 90% back in 2.8 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 9hours Aug 12, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 24% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 2,651 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Hidalgo's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Hidalgo, hours without power per customer

HidalgoUS median countyNew Mexico average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 NM 2.8

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Apr 15, 2024 No storm report 1,784 67% 3.0 h 2.8 h 5.0k
Apr 22, 2022 Windstorm 1,594 60% 2.2 h 2.2 h 3.6k
Sep 21, 2016 No storm report 1,656 62% 1.5 h 1.5 h 2.5k
Aug 12, 2025 Windstorm 746 28% 9.0 h 3.5 h 2.4k
Apr 10, 2019 No storm report 1,102 42% 4.2 h 3.8 h 2.3k
Apr 30, 2017 No storm report 1,651 62% 1.2 h 1.2 h 2.1k
May 7, 2017 No storm report 1,653 62% 1.0 h 1.0 h 1.7k
May 20, 2024 No storm report 574 22% 2.5 h 15 h 1.4k
Apr 3, 2023 No storm report 497 19% 3.0 h 2.8 h 1.2k
Mar 3, 2025 No storm report 570 22% 2.2 h 1.5 h 1.0k
Mar 16, 2019 No storm report 213 8% 5.8 h 5.5 h 739
Mar 4, 2018 No storm report 511 19% 1.5 h 1.2 h 668

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Hidalgo from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 76%
  • Windstorm 21%
  • Thunderstorms 2.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hidalgo

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole New Mexico territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Public Service Co of NM Investor Owned 125 117 0.94 16.4 497k
Columbus Electric Coop, Inc NM – – – 16.3 24k
Duncan Valley Elec Coop, Inc AZ – – – – 2.3k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across New Mexico

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All New Mexico counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 2,651 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →