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2025 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 10.6 hours, a total of 196K customer-hours (New Mexico average 3.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 28 New Mexico counties and 756th 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 Otero 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 | June 11, 2025 00:00 | August 7, 2025 23:45 | 57d 23h | 6,623 | 77K |
| 2 | August 8, 2025 11:45 | August 23, 2025 13:45 | 15d 2h | 5,971 | 26K |
| 3 | January 8, 2025 02:30 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 71d 18h | 2,664 | 35K |
| 4 | May 1, 2025 11:00 | May 16, 2025 08:00 | 14d 21h | 2,099 | 9,381 |
| 5 | September 2, 2025 18:15 | September 2, 2025 19:15 | 1h | 1,752 | 878 |
| 6 | May 30, 2025 07:00 | June 3, 2025 01:00 | 3d 18h | 1,358 | 5,382 |
| 7 | April 10, 2025 07:30 | April 10, 2025 15:15 | 7h 45m | 1,010 | 2,425 |
| 8 | October 6, 2025 03:00 | November 3, 2025 03:15 | 28d | 765 | 7,274 |
| 9 | September 12, 2025 07:00 | October 6, 2025 02:15 | 23d 19h | 698 | 9,665 |
| 10 | March 20, 2025 23:30 | April 8, 2025 23:30 | 19d | 600 | 6,348 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 20 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Otero 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | - | 3.9 hrs | - |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.28 | 2.1 hrs | 1.01 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2024 | 78 min | 0.83 | 78 min | 0.83 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2024 | 5.9 hrs | 2.17 | 3.3 hrs | 1.46 |
| Otero County Electric 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 ÷ 18,452 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. Otero County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otero 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/otero-county