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2023 Quay County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Quay County, NM went without power for an average of 18.1 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 460th 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 Quay 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 25, 2023 00:15 | May 25, 2023 23:45 | 23h 30m | 6,946 | 84K |
| 2 | December 13, 2023 13:30 | December 13, 2023 15:45 | 2h 15m | 232 | 84 |
| 3 | June 7, 2023 06:30 | June 7, 2023 13:00 | 6h 30m | 178 | 268 |
| 4 | August 13, 2023 20:30 | August 13, 2023 21:45 | 1h 15m | 101 | 101 |
| 5 | May 31, 2023 18:30 | May 31, 2023 20:30 | 2h | 81 | 86 |
| 6 | February 28, 2023 00:45 | February 28, 2023 04:30 | 3h 45m | 42 | 95 |
| 7 | June 20, 2023 16:15 | June 20, 2023 17:30 | 1h 15m | 42 | 29 |
| 8 | February 26, 2023 22:00 | February 27, 2023 20:00 | 22h | 39 | 241 |
| 9 | December 23, 2023 12:00 | December 23, 2023 14:15 | 2h 15m | 34 | 47 |
| 10 | February 22, 2023 20:30 | February 22, 2023 23:30 | 3h | 33 | 28 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Quay 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern 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 ÷ 4,683 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. Quay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Quay 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/quay-county