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2023 Sandoval County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sandoval County, NM went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 211K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1796th 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 Sandoval 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 | October 14, 2023 10:45 | October 15, 2023 03:15 | 16h 30m | 3,813 | 13K |
| 2 | March 23, 2023 05:00 | March 23, 2023 06:30 | 1h 30m | 3,771 | 1,004 |
| 3 | June 18, 2023 19:45 | June 19, 2023 03:45 | 8h | 3,259 | 4,938 |
| 4 | June 24, 2023 08:45 | June 25, 2023 01:15 | 16h 30m | 2,879 | 16K |
| 5 | August 16, 2023 01:15 | August 16, 2023 19:15 | 18h | 2,824 | 14K |
| 6 | September 11, 2023 14:15 | September 12, 2023 13:00 | 22h 45m | 2,711 | 16K |
| 7 | March 17, 2023 06:15 | March 17, 2023 07:30 | 1h 15m | 2,703 | 3,379 |
| 8 | June 1, 2023 13:00 | June 1, 2023 16:00 | 3h | 2,690 | 680 |
| 9 | July 11, 2023 23:30 | July 12, 2023 02:45 | 3h 15m | 2,686 | 4,477 |
| 10 | July 3, 2023 01:30 | July 3, 2023 03:15 | 1h 45m | 2,682 | 3,946 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 82 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Sandoval 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 |
| Continental Divide El Coop Inc | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 2.28 | 3.7 hrs | 1.68 |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 11.1 hrs | 3.43 | 10.7 hrs | 3.36 |
| Central New Mexico El 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 ÷ 60,725 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. Sandoval County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sandoval 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/sandoval-county