County annual report · FIPS 35039
2025 Rio Arriba County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Rio Arriba County, NM went without power for an average of 26.3 hours, a total of 185K customer-hours (New Mexico average 3.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 28 New Mexico counties and 227th 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 Rio Arriba 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 | November 19, 2025 18:45 | November 19, 2025 22:00 | 3h 15m | 12,115 | 6,803 |
| 2 | March 8, 2025 16:45 | March 8, 2025 21:15 | 4h 30m | 5,071 | 3,810 |
| 3 | March 7, 2025 01:45 | March 7, 2025 03:15 | 1h 30m | 5,069 | 2,538 |
| 4 | September 13, 2025 13:30 | September 14, 2025 03:15 | 13h 45m | 3,445 | 14K |
| 5 | January 1, 2025 17:00 | January 2, 2025 02:00 | 9h | 3,288 | 16K |
| 6 | May 27, 2025 17:45 | May 27, 2025 20:30 | 2h 45m | 3,127 | 1,823 |
| 7 | August 23, 2025 02:00 | August 23, 2025 04:45 | 2h 45m | 2,635 | 663 |
| 8 | June 17, 2025 15:45 | June 17, 2025 19:00 | 3h 15m | 1,982 | 3,668 |
| 9 | October 8, 2025 23:30 | October 9, 2025 07:45 | 8h 15m | 1,949 | 14K |
| 10 | July 15, 2025 19:15 | July 16, 2025 02:30 | 7h 15m | 1,434 | 6,585 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 68 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/rio-arriba-county