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2023 Valencia County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Valencia County, NM went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1798th 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 Valencia 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 | February 26, 2023 19:15 | March 1, 2023 03:00 | 2d 7h | 9,557 | 43K |
| 2 | April 2, 2023 15:45 | April 3, 2023 01:45 | 10h | 8,332 | 22K |
| 3 | June 7, 2023 00:45 | June 7, 2023 01:45 | 1h | 5,368 | 1,395 |
| 4 | February 22, 2023 19:00 | February 24, 2023 03:30 | 1d 8h | 1,586 | 5,547 |
| 5 | November 11, 2023 15:45 | November 11, 2023 21:00 | 5h 15m | 1,441 | 456 |
| 6 | May 31, 2023 14:45 | June 1, 2023 02:00 | 11h 15m | 1,293 | 393 |
| 7 | June 16, 2023 15:45 | June 17, 2023 06:30 | 14h 45m | 1,155 | 1,117 |
| 8 | May 19, 2023 13:15 | May 19, 2023 22:45 | 9h 30m | 1,124 | 359 |
| 9 | February 26, 2023 17:00 | February 26, 2023 18:00 | 1h | 1,063 | 1,063 |
| 10 | March 2, 2023 19:45 | March 3, 2023 04:45 | 9h | 1,035 | 1,500 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 53 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Valencia 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 |
| 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 ÷ 35,686 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. Valencia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Valencia 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/valencia-county