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

Power outage history

Luna County New Mexico

1.4hours

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

19th most of 20 in New Mexico 79% below the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 9, 2020 28% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.4h / 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 10hours Feb 22, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 12% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 3.1 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 16,018 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 Luna'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Luna, hours without power per customer

LunaUS median countyNew Mexico average
0 2 4 6 8 1.5 ’15 1.5 ’16 1.1 ’17 1.5 ’18 0.7 ’19 3.1 ’20 1.4 ’21 0.8 ’22 1.6 ’23 1.2 ’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
Oct 9, 2020 No storm report 4,537 28% 6.5 h 3.0 h 28k
Jan 10, 2016 No storm report 7,371 46% 5.2 h 12 min 13k
Nov 13, 2021 No storm report 9,800 61% 48 min 1.2 h 7.3k
Jul 10, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,830 11% 8.0 h 3.8 h 6.6k
May 19, 2023 No storm report 1,686 11% 3.2 h 3.2 h 5.5k
Feb 22, 2023 Windstorm 1,311 8% 10 h 9.8 h 5.0k
Aug 12, 2017 No storm report 1,368 9% 5.0 h 3.0 h 4.9k
Jul 26, 2020 No storm report 1,876 12% 2.2 h 3.0 h 4.2k
Dec 4, 2015 No storm report 945 6% 4.2 h 8.8 h 4.0k
Jul 11, 2021 No storm report 883 6% 4.5 h 4.0 h 4.0k
Jul 3, 2018 No storm report 870 5% 3.8 h 3.8 h 3.3k
May 11, 2023 No storm report 3,300 21% 1.2 h 1.2 h 3.2k

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 +4h 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 Luna from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 88%
  • Windstorm 6.9%
  • Winter storm 3.5%
  • Heat 1.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Luna

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
Sierra Electric Coop, Inc NM 167 52 – 19.3 22k

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 16,018 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 →