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2024 Chaves County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Chaves County, NM went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (New Mexico average 5.2 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2687th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaves County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 28, 2024 16:00 | March 28, 2024 18:15 | 2h 15m | 6,144 | 4,487 |
| 2 | February 27, 2024 16:45 | February 28, 2024 02:30 | 9h 45m | 1,427 | 2,378 |
| 3 | May 16, 2024 04:45 | May 16, 2024 08:45 | 4h | 1,226 | 2,655 |
| 4 | June 3, 2024 23:30 | June 4, 2024 02:30 | 3h | 973 | 297 |
| 5 | June 4, 2024 15:30 | June 4, 2024 21:45 | 6h 15m | 973 | 1,488 |
| 6 | February 11, 2024 13:00 | February 11, 2024 23:45 | 10h 45m | 634 | 2,917 |
| 7 | October 18, 2024 22:30 | October 21, 2024 22:00 | 2d 23h | 583 | 5,029 |
| 8 | May 4, 2024 17:30 | May 4, 2024 23:30 | 6h | 527 | 1,237 |
| 9 | September 22, 2024 02:15 | September 22, 2024 11:45 | 9h 30m | 500 | 1,579 |
| 10 | June 15, 2024 12:30 | June 15, 2024 19:00 | 6h 30m | 483 | 1,103 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 48 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Chaves County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.21 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2024 | 5.9 hrs | 2.17 | 3.3 hrs | 1.46 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roosevelt County Elec 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 46,338 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. Chaves County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chaves County, NM annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/new-mexico/chaves-county