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2022 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2261st 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 Lea 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 | December 12, 2022 12:00 | December 12, 2022 20:00 | 8h | 1,477 | 770 |
| 2 | February 3, 2022 09:00 | February 3, 2022 19:45 | 10h 45m | 1,456 | 3,260 |
| 3 | June 30, 2022 02:15 | June 30, 2022 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,398 | 1,545 |
| 4 | May 20, 2022 13:45 | May 20, 2022 18:00 | 4h 15m | 1,223 | 2,009 |
| 5 | November 25, 2022 23:30 | November 28, 2022 12:15 | 2d 12h | 1,021 | 14K |
| 6 | November 28, 2022 14:15 | November 30, 2022 12:00 | 1d 21h | 792 | 2,479 |
| 7 | June 28, 2022 20:45 | June 29, 2022 23:15 | 1d 2h | 759 | 2,589 |
| 8 | April 26, 2022 15:30 | April 27, 2022 09:30 | 18h | 613 | 1,732 |
| 9 | May 15, 2022 22:30 | May 16, 2022 00:45 | 2h 15m | 558 | 373 |
| 10 | February 4, 2022 10:15 | February 4, 2022 18:30 | 8h 15m | 533 | 1,883 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 61 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 Lea 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 |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,964 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. Lea County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lea 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/lea-county