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2023 Torrance County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Torrance County, NM went without power for an average of 20.7 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 390th 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 Torrance 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 | December 14, 2023 04:00 | December 16, 2023 02:30 | 1d 22h | 7,662 | 7,896 |
| 2 | July 18, 2023 13:30 | July 19, 2023 04:45 | 15h 15m | 4,345 | 8,572 |
| 3 | October 2, 2023 18:00 | October 3, 2023 03:15 | 9h 15m | 4,345 | 3,824 |
| 4 | December 27, 2023 17:00 | December 27, 2023 21:45 | 4h 45m | 4,331 | 1,088 |
| 5 | April 22, 2023 06:00 | April 22, 2023 16:30 | 10h 30m | 3,932 | 38K |
| 6 | May 19, 2023 13:45 | May 20, 2023 08:30 | 18h 45m | 2,134 | 13K |
| 7 | June 8, 2023 14:15 | June 8, 2023 15:00 | 45m | 1,419 | 718 |
| 8 | April 28, 2023 18:45 | April 29, 2023 02:45 | 8h | 1,340 | 6,801 |
| 9 | December 6, 2023 16:30 | December 6, 2023 17:45 | 1h 15m | 1,279 | 590 |
| 10 | July 21, 2023 22:30 | July 25, 2023 22:15 | 3d 23h | 1,255 | 5,477 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 66 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Torrance 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,851 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. Torrance County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Torrance 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/torrance-county