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2025 Lea County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lea County, NM went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (New Mexico average 3.0 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 28 New Mexico counties and 2495th 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 Lea 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 | January 10, 2025 03:45 | January 10, 2025 19:30 | 15h 45m | 1,047 | 523 |
| 2 | November 8, 2025 03:15 | November 8, 2025 13:15 | 10h | 954 | 1,499 |
| 3 | November 22, 2025 03:30 | November 22, 2025 07:00 | 3h 30m | 902 | 1,713 |
| 4 | March 14, 2025 11:45 | March 16, 2025 23:00 | 2d 11h | 900 | 7,906 |
| 5 | April 26, 2025 07:45 | April 27, 2025 04:45 | 21h | 735 | 1,381 |
| 6 | July 9, 2025 20:30 | July 10, 2025 07:00 | 10h 30m | 677 | 723 |
| 7 | August 17, 2025 20:30 | August 18, 2025 22:00 | 1d 1h | 560 | 2,619 |
| 8 | October 23, 2025 21:15 | October 24, 2025 05:30 | 8h 15m | 536 | 1,651 |
| 9 | November 26, 2025 17:15 | November 27, 2025 19:15 | 1d 2h | 533 | 5,203 |
| 10 | November 19, 2025 05:30 | November 19, 2025 08:15 | 2h 45m | 531 | 1,460 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 56 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/lea-county