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2020 Curry County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Curry County, NM went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2757th 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 Curry 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 | March 8, 2020 14:15 | March 8, 2020 19:15 | 5h | 5,768 | 7,613 |
| 2 | May 22, 2020 04:45 | May 22, 2020 09:30 | 4h 45m | 2,065 | 7,403 |
| 3 | May 23, 2020 20:15 | May 23, 2020 23:45 | 3h 30m | 2,051 | 1,379 |
| 4 | September 18, 2020 18:00 | September 19, 2020 01:45 | 7h 45m | 1,377 | 1,398 |
| 5 | January 3, 2020 14:15 | January 3, 2020 17:00 | 2h 45m | 1,113 | 281 |
| 6 | July 18, 2020 06:15 | July 18, 2020 09:00 | 2h 45m | 733 | 965 |
| 7 | June 23, 2020 13:30 | June 23, 2020 17:30 | 4h | 640 | 651 |
| 8 | March 15, 2020 13:45 | March 15, 2020 14:45 | 1h | 276 | 228 |
| 9 | August 24, 2020 09:30 | August 24, 2020 11:00 | 1h 30m | 232 | 242 |
| 10 | September 9, 2020 01:15 | September 9, 2020 04:00 | 2h 45m | 231 | 248 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 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 Curry 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 |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 0.78 | 89 min | 0.71 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 33,327 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. Curry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Curry 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/curry-county