Power Outages in Lea County, NM
No live outage feed is available for Lea County, NM yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.8 hours.
Lea County, NM is served by local tracked utilities.
Lea 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 Lea County right now.
Lea County has been under 11 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 18, 2026.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×5
- Special Weather Statement ×4
- Flood Watch ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Lea County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Lea County went about 1.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 16,490 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 16,490 customers out) · decade average 2.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 510 | 2,344 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 520 | 2,677 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 590 | 3,712 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 838 | 4,795 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 747 | 2,532 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 791 | 3,122 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 727 | 6,217 | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 754 | 1,477 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 746 | 16,490 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 715 | 1,315 | 1.4 |
| 2025 | 700 | 1,047 | 1.8 |
Relatively High wildfire exposure · 2.2 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 Lea County: FAQ
- How often does Lea County, NM lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Lea County, NM logged 700 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Lea County, NM?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 16,490 customers without power, beginning July 1, 2023 and lasting about 3d 13h.
- Is there a power outage in Lea County, NM right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Lea County, NM. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Lea County.
88114, 88231, 88240, 88242, 88244, 88252, 88260, 88262, 88264, 88265, 88267
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/35025 and /api/v1/counties/35025/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of New Mexico customers).