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2019 Chaves County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Chaves County, NM went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1805th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaves County, 2019
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 12, 2019 23:00 | March 16, 2019 16:00 | 3d 17h | 9,454 | 75K |
| 2 | March 12, 2019 12:30 | March 12, 2019 20:00 | 7h 30m | 2,273 | 4,113 |
| 3 | October 1, 2019 10:30 | October 2, 2019 00:15 | 13h 45m | 2,100 | 2,592 |
| 4 | September 29, 2019 14:30 | September 30, 2019 11:45 | 21h 15m | 1,877 | 1,955 |
| 5 | April 25, 2019 15:30 | April 26, 2019 02:30 | 11h | 1,603 | 1,148 |
| 6 | April 10, 2019 16:00 | April 11, 2019 04:15 | 12h 15m | 1,213 | 2,664 |
| 7 | January 20, 2019 17:30 | January 20, 2019 23:00 | 5h 30m | 965 | 1,453 |
| 8 | January 3, 2019 04:15 | January 4, 2019 19:00 | 1d 14h | 930 | 4,595 |
| 9 | January 1, 2019 07:15 | January 3, 2019 00:30 | 1d 17h | 807 | 3,389 |
| 10 | July 21, 2019 21:30 | July 22, 2019 20:45 | 23h 15m | 768 | 1,849 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 36 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2019, 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 | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.08 | 1.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.8 hrs | 2.30 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 |
| 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 81% of New Mexico's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/new-mexico/chaves-county