Power Outages in Chaves County, NM
No live outage feed is available for Chaves County, NM yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.0 hours.
Chaves County, NM is served by local tracked utilities.
Chaves County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Chaves County right now.
Chaves County has been under 8 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×7
- Flood Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Chaves County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Roswellno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Chaves County went about 1.0 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 13,467 customers.
Worst year here was 2019 (peak 9,454 customers out) · decade average 1.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 448 | 2,499 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 421 | 1,916 | 0.6 |
| 2017 | 526 | 2,660 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 633 | 4,954 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 658 | 9,454 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 691 | 2,408 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 598 | 13,467 | 2.2 |
| 2022 | 671 | 10,802 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 614 | 4,370 | 1.9 |
| 2024 | 659 | 6,144 | 1.1 |
| 2025 | 629 | 2,166 | 1.0 |
Relatively High ice storms exposure · 1.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Chaves County: FAQ
- How often does Chaves County, NM lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Chaves County, NM logged 629 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.0 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Chaves County, NM?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 13,467 customers without power, beginning February 16, 2021 and lasting about 17h 45m.
- Is there a power outage in Chaves County, NM right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Chaves County, NM. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Roswell. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Chaves County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Chaves County.
88201, 88203, 88230, 88232, 88250, 88253, 88339
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/35005 and /api/v1/counties/35005/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of New Mexico customers).