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2020 Chaves County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chaves County, NM went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2456th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaves County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 27, 2020 11:00 | July 27, 2020 18:45 | 7h 45m | 2,408 | 2,314 |
| 2 | September 11, 2020 22:00 | September 13, 2020 07:45 | 1d 9h | 2,241 | 2,466 |
| 3 | July 18, 2020 00:00 | July 18, 2020 03:00 | 3h | 2,235 | 1,121 |
| 4 | July 25, 2020 02:45 | July 26, 2020 09:30 | 1d 6h | 2,165 | 17K |
| 5 | August 3, 2020 02:00 | August 3, 2020 08:00 | 6h | 1,406 | 2,008 |
| 6 | October 2, 2020 05:15 | October 2, 2020 08:00 | 2h 45m | 1,049 | 1,308 |
| 7 | September 1, 2020 21:45 | September 3, 2020 04:45 | 1d 7h | 1,040 | 4,691 |
| 8 | July 9, 2020 22:15 | July 10, 2020 08:30 | 10h 15m | 688 | 2,580 |
| 9 | September 3, 2020 15:00 | September 4, 2020 01:15 | 10h 15m | 641 | 1,231 |
| 10 | June 3, 2020 16:00 | June 4, 2020 03:15 | 11h 15m | 633 | 6,054 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 50 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/new-mexico/chaves-county