County annual report · FIPS 35025
2024 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (New Mexico average 5.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2597th 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 Lea 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 | July 3, 2024 20:45 | July 7, 2024 06:15 | 3d 9h | 1,315 | 16K |
| 2 | April 29, 2024 01:30 | April 29, 2024 03:00 | 1h 30m | 869 | 1,089 |
| 3 | November 2, 2024 02:15 | November 2, 2024 08:00 | 5h 45m | 668 | 1,777 |
| 4 | June 25, 2024 21:45 | June 26, 2024 10:45 | 13h | 661 | 1,870 |
| 5 | July 10, 2024 09:00 | July 11, 2024 09:30 | 1d | 359 | 2,094 |
| 6 | September 10, 2024 09:30 | September 10, 2024 17:00 | 7h 30m | 353 | 568 |
| 7 | June 30, 2024 11:30 | June 30, 2024 15:15 | 3h 45m | 351 | 1,315 |
| 8 | May 29, 2024 15:15 | May 29, 2024 17:00 | 1h 45m | 337 | 254 |
| 9 | May 31, 2024 18:15 | June 1, 2024 01:15 | 7h | 324 | 87 |
| 10 | February 2, 2024 01:00 | February 2, 2024 04:30 | 3h 30m | 312 | 420 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 47 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lea 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 |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,964 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. Lea County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lea 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/lea-county