Power Out Map
– 0% of Curry out 0 customers out in New Mexico

Power outage history

Curry County New Mexico

1.7hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

17th most of 20 in New Mexico 75% below the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 27, 2015 35% of customers out · 90% back in 19 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.7h / yr State average 2.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 35hours Mar 13, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 41% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 4.2 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 33,327 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Curry's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Curry, hours without power per customer

CurryUS median countyNew Mexico average
0 2 4 6 8 6.3 ’15 0.6 ’16 0.9 ’17 0.6 ’18 3.4 ’19 0.7 ’20 2.4 ’21 0.7 ’22 4.2 ’23 0.8 ’24 0.6 ’25 US 6.6 NM 2.8

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Dec 26, 2015 No storm report 11,524 35% 22 h 19 h 130k
Mar 13, 2019 No storm report 4,081 12% 35 h 25 h 80k
Feb 26, 2023 Windstorm 10,699 32% 14 h 7.2 h 58k
Feb 16, 2021 No storm report 9,414 28% 9.0 h 4.0 h 48k
May 24, 2023 Thunderstorms 6,538 20% 20 h 14 h 41k
Dec 28, 2015 No storm report 2,903 9% 16 h 8.2 h 32k
Nov 26, 2015 No storm report 1,910 6% 20 h 4.0 h 21k
Feb 27, 2023 Windstorm 6,043 18% 4.8 h 1.2 h 18k
Mar 8, 2020 No storm report 5,768 17% 3.5 h 1.5 h 7.6k
May 21, 2020 No storm report 2,065 6% 3.5 h 2.0 h 7.2k
Aug 23, 2022 No storm report 2,521 8% 3.8 h 2.2 h 7.2k
Jul 15, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,489 10% 2.0 h 12 min 6.9k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Curry from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 59%
  • Windstorm 24%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Winter storm 3.2%
  • Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Curry

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole New Mexico territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Public Service Co of NM Investor Owned 125 117 0.94 16.4 497k
Southwestern Public Service Co Investor Owned 235 145 1.43 12.9 101k
Farmers Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 198 198 1.53 13.7 10k
Roosevelt County Elec Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 13.5 3.9k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across New Mexico

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All New Mexico counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 33,327 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →