County annual report · FIPS 35035
2023 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2006th 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 Otero 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 | May 8, 2023 19:15 | May 8, 2023 22:15 | 3h | 2,849 | 3,607 |
| 2 | February 14, 2023 08:30 | February 14, 2023 15:15 | 6h 45m | 2,717 | 12K |
| 3 | April 14, 2023 09:45 | April 14, 2023 10:00 | 15m | 2,584 | 646 |
| 4 | August 8, 2023 23:45 | August 9, 2023 05:15 | 5h 30m | 2,528 | 7,800 |
| 5 | July 7, 2023 23:00 | July 7, 2023 23:45 | 45m | 2,442 | 1,222 |
| 6 | October 26, 2023 18:30 | October 26, 2023 21:15 | 2h 45m | 1,910 | 1,645 |
| 7 | October 27, 2023 16:30 | October 27, 2023 18:00 | 1h 30m | 1,889 | 2,362 |
| 8 | October 14, 2023 18:00 | October 14, 2023 19:45 | 1h 45m | 1,844 | 463 |
| 9 | June 1, 2023 15:45 | June 1, 2023 17:00 | 1h 15m | 1,110 | 1,387 |
| 10 | October 24, 2023 12:00 | October 24, 2023 17:30 | 5h 30m | 912 | 2,727 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 38 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Otero 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 13.1 hrs | - | 11.6 hrs | - |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.84 | 1.5 hrs | 0.72 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 72 min | 0.94 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 5.4 hrs | 2.53 | 4.3 hrs | 2.10 |
| Otero County 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 ÷ 18,452 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. Otero County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otero 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/otero-county