County annual report · FIPS 35005
2017 Chaves County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Chaves County, NM went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 2123rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaves County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 13, 2017 00:30 | October 13, 2017 01:15 | 45m | 2,660 | 703 |
| 2 | March 30, 2017 17:45 | March 30, 2017 18:00 | 15m | 1,545 | 386 |
| 3 | May 8, 2017 03:00 | May 8, 2017 21:00 | 18h | 1,499 | 2,897 |
| 4 | October 9, 2017 16:15 | October 9, 2017 18:15 | 2h | 1,129 | 385 |
| 5 | April 12, 2017 14:15 | April 13, 2017 18:00 | 1d 3h | 1,053 | 2,882 |
| 6 | August 22, 2017 22:15 | August 23, 2017 06:45 | 8h 30m | 763 | 2,019 |
| 7 | October 6, 2017 05:00 | October 6, 2017 12:00 | 7h | 698 | 1,583 |
| 8 | April 28, 2017 03:15 | April 28, 2017 04:00 | 45m | 657 | 493 |
| 9 | July 15, 2017 23:45 | July 16, 2017 09:45 | 10h | 657 | 1,894 |
| 10 | August 27, 2017 16:45 | August 27, 2017 19:30 | 2h 45m | 627 | 634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 55 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Chaves County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 86 min | 1.09 | 86 min | 1.09 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roosevelt County 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 46,338 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. Chaves County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chaves County, NM annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/new-mexico/chaves-county