County annual report · FIPS 35053
2023 Socorro County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Socorro County, NM went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,135 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2881st 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 Socorro 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 | June 8, 2023 14:15 | June 8, 2023 15:00 | 45m | 445 | 173 |
| 2 | April 11, 2023 22:45 | April 11, 2023 23:30 | 45m | 123 | 92 |
| 3 | May 21, 2023 21:45 | May 22, 2023 00:00 | 2h 15m | 123 | 277 |
| 4 | December 19, 2023 22:15 | December 19, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 115 | 116 |
| 5 | June 18, 2023 01:15 | June 18, 2023 03:30 | 2h 15m | 103 | 202 |
| 6 | June 18, 2023 23:15 | June 19, 2023 00:15 | 1h | 78 | 60 |
| 7 | June 29, 2023 21:45 | June 29, 2023 23:30 | 1h 45m | 78 | 88 |
| 8 | October 17, 2023 18:30 | October 17, 2023 22:30 | 4h | 58 | 207 |
| 9 | October 10, 2023 14:15 | October 10, 2023 14:45 | 30m | 43 | 22 |
| 10 | April 11, 2023 20:00 | April 11, 2023 20:15 | 15m | 33 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Socorro 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 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra 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 ÷ 9,451 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. Socorro County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Socorro 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/socorro-county