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2021 Rio Arriba County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Rio Arriba County, NM went without power for an average of 34.0 hours, a total of 239K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 269th 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 Rio Arriba 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 | December 15, 2021 15:45 | December 18, 2021 01:15 | 2d 9h | 6,030 | 87K |
| 2 | July 5, 2021 03:15 | July 5, 2021 06:00 | 2h 45m | 4,725 | 6,216 |
| 3 | December 15, 2021 11:45 | December 15, 2021 13:15 | 1h 30m | 3,868 | 1,807 |
| 4 | June 18, 2021 05:15 | June 18, 2021 21:30 | 16h 15m | 3,081 | 8,678 |
| 5 | December 30, 2021 16:30 | December 30, 2021 20:00 | 3h 30m | 2,194 | 1,664 |
| 6 | June 10, 2021 19:30 | June 10, 2021 20:45 | 1h 15m | 2,105 | 2,472 |
| 7 | July 9, 2021 23:00 | July 10, 2021 01:45 | 2h 45m | 2,058 | 4,063 |
| 8 | October 1, 2021 07:00 | October 4, 2021 14:45 | 3d 7h | 1,943 | 28K |
| 9 | September 6, 2021 07:45 | September 6, 2021 20:00 | 12h 15m | 1,890 | 16K |
| 10 | March 22, 2021 09:30 | March 22, 2021 11:30 | 2h | 1,661 | 3,209 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 53 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 13.0 hrs | 4.17 | 7.2 hrs | 3.66 |
| Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 25.9 hrs | 2.28 | 2.0 hrs | 2.01 |
| City of Farmington - (NM) | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 1.15 | - | - |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/rio-arriba-county