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2022 Rio Arriba County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rio Arriba County, NM went without power for an average of 23.7 hours, a total of 167K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 266th 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 Rio Arriba 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 | November 14, 2022 11:30 | November 14, 2022 20:15 | 8h 45m | 5,580 | 18K |
| 2 | June 21, 2022 14:30 | June 22, 2022 12:00 | 21h 30m | 2,413 | 3,419 |
| 3 | April 22, 2022 21:45 | April 23, 2022 09:00 | 11h 15m | 2,301 | 4,847 |
| 4 | March 22, 2022 09:45 | March 22, 2022 14:30 | 4h 45m | 1,868 | 4,699 |
| 5 | April 5, 2022 22:45 | April 6, 2022 05:15 | 6h 30m | 1,620 | 7,671 |
| 6 | August 16, 2022 21:45 | August 16, 2022 22:30 | 45m | 1,601 | 801 |
| 7 | August 16, 2022 19:45 | August 16, 2022 20:00 | 15m | 1,595 | 399 |
| 8 | July 6, 2022 12:15 | July 7, 2022 13:15 | 1d 1h | 1,553 | 2,433 |
| 9 | July 17, 2022 00:00 | July 17, 2022 04:45 | 4h 45m | 1,291 | 4,839 |
| 10 | July 22, 2022 22:45 | July 23, 2022 06:45 | 8h | 1,288 | 3,815 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 76 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 10.1 hrs | 2.93 | 9.5 hrs | 2.73 |
| Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 6.5 hrs | 2.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| City of Farmington - (NM) | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 0.83 | - | - |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/rio-arriba-county