Power outage history
Doña Ana County New Mexico
2.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
15th most of 20 in New Mexico 64% below the national median
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 Doña Ana's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Doña Ana, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2025 | Flooding | 3,149 | 3% | 19 h | – | 51k |
| Jun 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,512 | 6% | 10 h | 3.0 h | 49k |
| Jul 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 7,092 | 7% | 14 h | 14 h | 44k |
| Dec 26, 2015 | Winter storm | 5,251 | 5% | 15 h | 7.5 h | 43k |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Windstorm | 10,341 | 10% | 8.0 h | 7.0 h | 43k |
| Jun 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 13,227 | 13% | 8.0 h | 3.5 h | 34k |
| May 2, 2015 | No storm report | 14,688 | 14% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 33k |
| Nov 20, 2019 | No storm report | 5,833 | 6% | 9.8 h | 9.0 h | 31k |
| Jun 13, 2021 | No storm report | 13,923 | 14% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 31k |
| Dec 23, 2017 | No storm report | 10,767 | 11% | 2.8 h | 7.0 h | 28k |
| Aug 23, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 7,813 | 8% | 4.0 h | 12 min | 28k |
| Jan 12, 2022 | No storm report | 9,306 | 9% | 3.0 h | 1.0 h | 28k |
| Jul 30, 2018 | No storm report | 7,431 | 7% | 5.0 h | 13 h | 27k |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Windstorm | 9,344 | 9% | 7.0 h | 1.0 h | 26k |
| Dec 18, 2022 | No storm report | 9,612 | 9% | 3.0 h | 48 min | 26k |
| Jul 18, 2017 | Flooding | 15,237 | 15% | 3.2 h | 2.2 h | 26k |
| Jul 18, 2019 | No storm report | 7,551 | 7% | 3.2 h | 1.8 h | 24k |
| Aug 12, 2024 | No storm report | 6,965 | 7% | 8.8 h | 19 h | 24k |
| Dec 17, 2016 | Windstorm | 5,027 | 5% | 7.2 h | 4.2 h | 23k |
| May 31, 2021 | No storm report | 6,983 | 7% | 10 h | 1.0 h | 23k |
| May 22, 2021 | No storm report | 5,554 | 5% | 4.0 h | 1.0 h | 22k |
| Jul 19, 2025 | No storm report | 3,832 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 21k |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Flooding | 6,148 | 6% | 6.5 h | 6.0 h | 20k |
| Feb 24, 2025 | No storm report | 11,677 | 11% | 2.0 h | 48 min | 20k |
| Jun 18, 2021 | No storm report | 13,953 | 14% | 2.0 h | 8.8 h | 20k |
| Jan 5, 2015 | No storm report | 11,353 | 11% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 18k |
| Jun 15, 2016 | No storm report | 4,842 | 5% | 3.8 h | – | 18k |
| May 16, 2015 | No storm report | 3,447 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 18k |
| Jul 21, 2025 | No storm report | 5,631 | 6% | 3.2 h | 2.5 h | 18k |
| Nov 8, 2016 | No storm report | 3,511 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 17k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Doña Ana from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 70%
- Thunderstorms 13%
- Flooding 8.0%
- Windstorm 6.9%
- Heat 1.2%
- Winter storm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Doña Ana
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 |
| El Paso Electric Co | Investor Owned | 116 | 116 | 1.24 | 10.3 | 97k |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | NM | – | – | – | 16.3 | 24k |
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
- Otero 4.3 h
- Doña Ana (this county) 2.4 h
- El Paso, TX 1.5 h
- Luna 1.4 h
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 101,930 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 →