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2024 Quay County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Quay County, NM went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 1,600 customer-hours (New Mexico average 5.2 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2884th 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 Quay 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 | February 1, 2024 15:15 | February 1, 2024 15:45 | 30m | 315 | 158 |
| 2 | April 13, 2024 03:45 | April 13, 2024 05:15 | 1h 30m | 243 | 365 |
| 3 | September 21, 2024 19:30 | September 22, 2024 06:00 | 10h 30m | 103 | 380 |
| 4 | November 18, 2024 20:45 | November 18, 2024 22:00 | 1h 15m | 75 | 89 |
| 5 | June 7, 2024 14:00 | June 7, 2024 17:00 | 3h | 36 | 67 |
| 6 | October 21, 2024 03:30 | October 21, 2024 05:45 | 2h 15m | 36 | 45 |
| 7 | March 11, 2024 15:45 | March 11, 2024 16:00 | 15m | 30 | 8 |
| 8 | April 7, 2024 13:45 | April 7, 2024 14:45 | 1h | 27 | 27 |
| 9 | June 9, 2024 00:45 | June 9, 2024 04:30 | 3h 45m | 25 | 40 |
| 10 | February 27, 2024 17:30 | February 27, 2024 18:30 | 1h | 24 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 3 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 Quay 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Southwestern 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 ÷ 4,683 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. Quay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Quay 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/quay-county