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2023 Rio Arriba County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rio Arriba County, NM went without power for an average of 20.1 hours, a total of 141K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 400th 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 Rio Arriba 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 | March 2, 2023 12:15 | March 2, 2023 20:15 | 8h | 5,609 | 15K |
| 2 | June 23, 2023 14:30 | June 23, 2023 21:00 | 6h 30m | 4,925 | 8,922 |
| 3 | September 30, 2023 23:00 | October 1, 2023 00:00 | 1h | 4,909 | 3,974 |
| 4 | November 25, 2023 15:30 | November 25, 2023 17:00 | 1h 30m | 4,897 | 1,296 |
| 5 | July 19, 2023 15:15 | July 20, 2023 00:45 | 9h 30m | 1,986 | 1,660 |
| 6 | June 12, 2023 17:15 | June 13, 2023 00:15 | 7h | 1,985 | 2,988 |
| 7 | August 30, 2023 20:15 | August 30, 2023 20:45 | 30m | 1,983 | 991 |
| 8 | July 4, 2023 21:15 | July 5, 2023 12:45 | 15h 30m | 1,922 | 8,697 |
| 9 | September 14, 2023 01:15 | September 14, 2023 05:15 | 4h | 1,650 | 2,898 |
| 10 | April 3, 2023 21:00 | April 4, 2023 06:00 | 9h | 1,578 | 9,891 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 85 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 11.1 hrs | 3.43 | 10.7 hrs | 3.36 |
| Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.7 hrs | 1.28 | 5.3 hrs | 0.43 |
| City of Farmington - (NM) | 2023 | 1.5 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| 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 n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2023; 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, 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/rio-arriba-county