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2023 San Miguel County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in San Miguel County, NM went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1626th 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 San Miguel 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 | August 28, 2023 14:00 | August 28, 2023 16:00 | 2h | 4,120 | 1,057 |
| 2 | August 27, 2023 20:45 | August 28, 2023 06:15 | 9h 30m | 2,503 | 16K |
| 3 | July 25, 2023 15:15 | July 25, 2023 23:45 | 8h 30m | 2,302 | 843 |
| 4 | July 17, 2023 21:00 | July 17, 2023 21:15 | 15m | 2,300 | 575 |
| 5 | July 21, 2023 22:45 | July 22, 2023 07:00 | 8h 15m | 2,288 | 11K |
| 6 | March 22, 2023 19:30 | March 23, 2023 01:15 | 5h 45m | 2,148 | 1,615 |
| 7 | February 22, 2023 21:30 | February 23, 2023 00:30 | 3h | 1,986 | 2,005 |
| 8 | May 18, 2023 18:00 | May 18, 2023 23:45 | 5h 45m | 1,833 | 472 |
| 9 | July 2, 2023 18:45 | July 2, 2023 21:30 | 2h 45m | 1,809 | 3,166 |
| 10 | August 2, 2023 23:15 | August 3, 2023 05:00 | 5h 45m | 438 | 2,519 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 17 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 San Miguel 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 |
| Mora-San Miguel Elec Coop | 2018 | 7.2 hrs | - | 6.8 hrs | - |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Springer 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 ÷ 11,786 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. San Miguel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Miguel 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/san-miguel-county