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2019 Rio Arriba County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rio Arriba County, NM went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 5,832 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.1 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2564th 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 Rio Arriba 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 | December 27, 2019 17:15 | December 28, 2019 04:45 | 11h 30m | 719 | 2,397 |
| 2 | December 15, 2019 16:00 | December 15, 2019 18:15 | 2h 15m | 706 | 1,589 |
| 3 | December 8, 2019 17:45 | December 8, 2019 23:30 | 5h 45m | 705 | 626 |
| 4 | December 11, 2019 20:15 | December 13, 2019 21:30 | 2d 1h | 54 | 132 |
| 5 | December 9, 2019 16:30 | December 10, 2019 21:45 | 1d 5h | 53 | 203 |
| 6 | December 22, 2019 00:15 | December 23, 2019 00:00 | 23h 45m | 29 | 506 |
| 7 | December 28, 2019 13:30 | December 28, 2019 15:00 | 1h 30m | 21 | 22 |
| 8 | December 26, 2019 17:00 | December 27, 2019 00:15 | 7h 15m | 16 | 33 |
| 9 | December 23, 2019 20:30 | December 24, 2019 21:15 | 1d | 15 | 196 |
| 10 | February 15, 2019 21:30 | February 15, 2019 22:30 | 1h | 13 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Rio Arriba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 12.7 hrs | 4.38 | 8.1 hrs | 3.58 |
| City of Farmington - (NM) | 2018 | 58 min | 0.57 | - | - |
| Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Rio Arriba E 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 ÷ 7,029 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. Rio Arriba County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Arriba 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/rio-arriba-county