Power outage history
Eddy County New Mexico
3.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
12th most of 20 in New Mexico 53% 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 Eddy's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.0 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Eddy, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2021 | No storm report | 15,851 | 56% | 9.5 h | 5.8 h | 64k |
| Aug 7, 2023 | No storm report | 4,680 | 16% | 7.0 h | 1.0 h | 22k |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,852 | 6% | 26 h | 12 h | 20k |
| Aug 16, 2015 | No storm report | 7,232 | 25% | 4.8 h | 30 min | 17k |
| Jul 9, 2020 | No storm report | 8,988 | 31% | 4.5 h | 1.0 h | 13k |
| Apr 22, 2019 | No storm report | 3,932 | 14% | 5.0 h | 3.8 h | 9.4k |
| Jan 15, 2018 | No storm report | 3,756 | 13% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 9.4k |
| Dec 2, 2015 | No storm report | 4,363 | 15% | 6.5 h | 5.0 h | 9.0k |
| May 6, 2021 | No storm report | 3,264 | 11% | 3.0 h | 12 min | 8.9k |
| May 17, 2016 | No storm report | 5,109 | 18% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 8.9k |
| Dec 9, 2015 | No storm report | 1,007 | 4% | 9.0 h | – | 8.8k |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Windstorm | 1,680 | 6% | 6.5 h | 1.2 h | 8.0k |
| Oct 30, 2021 | No storm report | 4,295 | 15% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 7.5k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | No storm report | 4,865 | 17% | 2.5 h | 12 min | 7.2k |
| Jul 5, 2021 | No storm report | 2,835 | 10% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 6.4k |
| Jun 19, 2020 | No storm report | 1,619 | 6% | 5.0 h | 5.2 h | 6.2k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | No storm report | 2,951 | 10% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 6.1k |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Windstorm | 3,034 | 11% | 3.5 h | 48 min | 6.0k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Windstorm | 691 | 2% | 13 h | – | 5.8k |
| Oct 26, 2019 | No storm report | 4,579 | 16% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 5.4k |
| Apr 20, 2021 | No storm report | 2,415 | 8% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 5.4k |
| Mar 23, 2025 | No storm report | 763 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 5.1k |
| Mar 1, 2016 | No storm report | 5,772 | 20% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 5.1k |
| Nov 9, 2020 | No storm report | 4,503 | 16% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 5.0k |
| Jun 25, 2017 | No storm report | 1,827 | 6% | 2.8 h | 2.0 h | 5.0k |
| Feb 26, 2018 | No storm report | 4,914 | 17% | 1.0 h | 5.8 h | 4.9k |
| Mar 12, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 925 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 4.6k |
| Aug 26, 2019 | No storm report | 1,294 | 5% | 5.8 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jul 26, 2015 | No storm report | 3,505 | 12% | 1.5 h | 3.0 h | 4.3k |
| Apr 8, 2021 | No storm report | 2,148 | 8% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 4.3k |
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 Eddy from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 80%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Windstorm 8.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Eddy
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | Investor Owned | 235 | 145 | 1.43 | 12.9 | 101k |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 243 | 243 | 2.42 | 11.0 | 7.3k |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 326 | 280 | 2.19 | 9.8 | 6.2k |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 195 | 134 | – | 18.7 | 232 |
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
- Loving, TX 270 h
- Culberson, TX 38 h
- Reeves, TX 6.9 h
- Otero 4.3 h
- Eddy (this county) 3.1 h
- Lea 2.6 h
- Chaves 1.6 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 28,539 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 →