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2022 Chaves County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Chaves County, NM went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2598th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaves County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 24, 2022 21:45 | October 25, 2022 04:45 | 7h | 10,802 | 10K |
| 2 | November 11, 2022 21:30 | November 11, 2022 22:00 | 30m | 3,350 | 1,675 |
| 3 | December 26, 2022 06:30 | December 26, 2022 08:30 | 2h | 2,261 | 3,955 |
| 4 | April 13, 2022 20:30 | April 14, 2022 02:00 | 5h 30m | 2,238 | 2,021 |
| 5 | June 19, 2022 19:15 | June 20, 2022 07:30 | 12h 15m | 2,157 | 3,794 |
| 6 | September 9, 2022 19:45 | September 10, 2022 04:15 | 8h 30m | 1,895 | 968 |
| 7 | August 3, 2022 13:30 | August 4, 2022 10:30 | 21h | 1,357 | 2,186 |
| 8 | February 24, 2022 18:30 | February 24, 2022 20:45 | 2h 15m | 1,088 | 668 |
| 9 | April 20, 2022 02:15 | April 20, 2022 10:45 | 8h 30m | 1,046 | 1,864 |
| 10 | April 16, 2022 17:30 | April 17, 2022 08:30 | 15h | 709 | 1,985 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 41 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.02 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 2.27 | 3.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/new-mexico/chaves-county