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2025 Chaves County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Chaves County, NM went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (New Mexico average 3.0 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 28 New Mexico counties and 2765th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chaves County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2025 21:15 | May 1, 2025 01:15 | 4h | 2,166 | 707 |
| 2 | September 13, 2025 14:45 | September 13, 2025 21:45 | 7h | 2,133 | 2,962 |
| 3 | April 25, 2025 16:15 | April 25, 2025 23:15 | 7h | 1,765 | 518 |
| 4 | June 26, 2025 19:30 | June 27, 2025 02:45 | 7h 15m | 1,436 | 507 |
| 5 | May 26, 2025 14:30 | May 26, 2025 17:45 | 3h 15m | 1,381 | 535 |
| 6 | October 17, 2025 11:15 | October 17, 2025 12:00 | 45m | 1,083 | 812 |
| 7 | November 9, 2025 04:15 | November 9, 2025 20:30 | 16h 15m | 692 | 1,643 |
| 8 | March 18, 2025 18:00 | March 19, 2025 23:30 | 1d 5h | 496 | 8,158 |
| 9 | June 25, 2025 04:45 | June 25, 2025 22:45 | 18h | 471 | 1,487 |
| 10 | June 5, 2025 18:00 | June 6, 2025 00:15 | 6h 15m | 443 | 477 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 36 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/new-mexico/chaves-county