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2023 Catron County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Catron County, NM went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1377th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Catron County, 2023
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 23, 2023 04:00 | December 24, 2023 10:30 | 1d 6h | 1,430 | 8,959 |
| 2 | January 20, 2023 05:45 | January 20, 2023 07:30 | 1h 45m | 1,224 | 2,142 |
| 3 | January 7, 2023 09:45 | January 7, 2023 10:00 | 15m | 1,223 | 306 |
| 4 | January 2, 2023 09:15 | January 3, 2023 02:00 | 16h 45m | 965 | 946 |
| 5 | September 13, 2023 04:45 | September 13, 2023 10:45 | 6h | 124 | 703 |
| 6 | November 2, 2023 22:45 | November 3, 2023 03:45 | 5h | 95 | 279 |
| 7 | October 27, 2023 13:45 | October 27, 2023 15:15 | 1h 30m | 41 | 60 |
| 8 | July 16, 2023 02:15 | July 16, 2023 03:00 | 45m | 27 | 14 |
| 9 | October 2, 2023 19:45 | October 2, 2023 20:30 | 45m | 13 | 10 |
| 10 | November 28, 2023 22:30 | November 28, 2023 23:15 | 45m | 13 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Catron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NM | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.84 | 1.5 hrs | 0.72 |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Navopache Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra Electric 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 n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,458 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. Catron County has data for 2015–2016, 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Catron County, NM annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/new-mexico/catron-county