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2021 Curry County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Curry County, NM went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2052nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Curry County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 14, 2021 16:00 | February 17, 2021 03:15 | 2d 11h | 9,414 | 60K |
| 2 | October 8, 2021 15:45 | October 8, 2021 16:15 | 30m | 3,470 | 1,735 |
| 3 | November 14, 2021 13:00 | November 15, 2021 01:00 | 12h | 2,577 | 6,839 |
| 4 | March 1, 2021 16:30 | March 1, 2021 16:45 | 15m | 1,840 | 460 |
| 5 | April 6, 2021 19:30 | April 7, 2021 01:30 | 6h | 1,449 | 1,479 |
| 6 | June 27, 2021 11:00 | June 27, 2021 13:45 | 2h 45m | 1,194 | 2,317 |
| 7 | March 23, 2021 21:45 | March 23, 2021 23:00 | 1h 15m | 833 | 215 |
| 8 | May 25, 2021 12:00 | May 25, 2021 17:15 | 5h 15m | 822 | 224 |
| 9 | February 14, 2021 01:15 | February 14, 2021 03:30 | 2h 15m | 708 | 272 |
| 10 | June 27, 2021 00:15 | June 27, 2021 05:15 | 5h | 541 | 828 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 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 Curry County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.74 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/new-mexico/curry-county