County annual report · FIPS 35039
2024 Rio Arriba County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rio Arriba County, NM went without power for an average of 45.5 hours, a total of 320K customer-hours (New Mexico average 5.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 220th 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 Rio Arriba 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 | November 7, 2024 07:00 | November 7, 2024 16:45 | 9h 45m | 7,234 | 48K |
| 2 | November 8, 2024 03:15 | November 13, 2024 00:45 | 4d 21h | 6,868 | 44K |
| 3 | March 17, 2024 03:30 | March 28, 2024 08:00 | 11d 4h | 2,169 | 42K |
| 4 | January 20, 2024 07:45 | January 20, 2024 17:15 | 9h 30m | 2,092 | 18K |
| 5 | June 25, 2024 23:15 | June 26, 2024 13:30 | 14h 15m | 1,971 | 26K |
| 6 | June 19, 2024 22:00 | June 22, 2024 21:45 | 2d 23h | 1,798 | 22K |
| 7 | November 7, 2024 01:15 | November 7, 2024 04:45 | 3h 30m | 1,747 | 1,790 |
| 8 | November 4, 2024 08:00 | November 5, 2024 03:45 | 19h 45m | 1,435 | 10K |
| 9 | January 26, 2024 00:30 | January 26, 2024 11:45 | 11h 15m | 1,204 | 5,931 |
| 10 | September 17, 2024 18:15 | September 18, 2024 09:15 | 15h | 1,138 | 4,649 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 80 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Rio Arriba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | 2024 | 31.3 hrs | 4.95 | 17.4 hrs | 3.61 |
| Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.1 hrs | 1.42 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| City of Farmington - (NM) | 2024 | 1.7 hrs | 0.83 | - | - |
| Northern Rio Arriba E 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 ÷ 7,029 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. Rio Arriba County has data for 2018–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rio Arriba 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/rio-arriba-county