County annual report · FIPS 35039
2020 Rio Arriba County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rio Arriba County, NM went without power for an average of 28.7 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 295th 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 Rio Arriba 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 31, 2020 12:15 | August 1, 2020 07:30 | 19h 15m | 2,194 | 9,350 |
| 2 | August 12, 2020 06:30 | August 12, 2020 20:15 | 13h 45m | 1,913 | 5,618 |
| 3 | September 8, 2020 16:15 | September 10, 2020 14:45 | 1d 22h | 1,796 | 24K |
| 4 | June 17, 2020 21:45 | June 19, 2020 21:45 | 2d | 1,741 | 7,352 |
| 5 | October 26, 2020 13:15 | October 29, 2020 22:45 | 3d 9h | 1,632 | 55K |
| 6 | December 10, 2020 23:45 | December 12, 2020 00:30 | 1d | 1,433 | 16K |
| 7 | December 8, 2020 00:45 | December 8, 2020 03:15 | 2h 30m | 1,422 | 3,551 |
| 8 | October 22, 2020 08:00 | October 23, 2020 00:15 | 16h 15m | 1,417 | 7,062 |
| 9 | December 12, 2020 08:15 | December 12, 2020 21:15 | 13h | 1,385 | 361 |
| 10 | May 11, 2020 19:00 | May 12, 2020 05:00 | 10h | 1,217 | 2,501 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 64 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 9.0 hrs | 2.79 | 8.1 hrs | 2.74 |
| Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.05 |
| City of Farmington - (NM) | 2020 | 76 min | 0.60 | - | - |
| 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 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2020; 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, 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/rio-arriba-county