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2023 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 263K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1361st 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 Lea 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 | July 1, 2023 14:45 | July 5, 2023 04:30 | 3d 13h | 16,490 | 28K |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 11:30 | August 9, 2023 08:30 | 1d 21h | 15,710 | 52K |
| 3 | September 30, 2023 02:15 | October 2, 2023 11:30 | 2d 9h | 6,092 | 32K |
| 4 | June 21, 2023 15:00 | June 22, 2023 01:45 | 10h 45m | 1,616 | 4,246 |
| 5 | September 13, 2023 16:45 | September 14, 2023 08:45 | 16h | 1,534 | 1,087 |
| 6 | September 7, 2023 20:30 | September 8, 2023 05:30 | 9h | 1,374 | 2,253 |
| 7 | May 31, 2023 21:45 | June 4, 2023 09:30 | 3d 11h | 1,371 | 17K |
| 8 | September 14, 2023 12:15 | September 14, 2023 14:00 | 1h 45m | 1,369 | 2,053 |
| 9 | February 26, 2023 22:00 | March 1, 2023 12:15 | 2d 14h | 1,314 | 13K |
| 10 | June 24, 2023 14:30 | June 25, 2023 02:30 | 12h | 1,220 | 3,426 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 80 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2023 | 3.9 hrs | 1.27 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 5.4 hrs | 2.53 | 4.3 hrs | 2.10 |
| 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 n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2023; 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, 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/lea-county