Power outage history
Sandoval County New Mexico
3.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
10th most of 20 in New Mexico 46% 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 Sandoval's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Sandoval, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 2024 | Winter storm | 8,712 | 14% | 39 h | 19 h | 145k |
| Nov 29, 2019 | Winter storm | 2,778 | 5% | 24 h | – | 50k |
| Mar 17, 2024 | Winter storm | 3,493 | 6% | 21 h | 11 h | 50k |
| Jun 10, 2024 | No storm report | 3,559 | 6% | 30 h | 24 h | 44k |
| Jul 16, 2017 | No storm report | 14,198 | 23% | 3.2 h | 2.0 h | 40k |
| Oct 26, 2020 | Winter storm | 1,797 | 3% | 46 h | – | 37k |
| Jun 29, 2024 | No storm report | 11,866 | 20% | 5.5 h | 1.0 h | 36k |
| Nov 4, 2024 | No storm report | 3,075 | 5% | 13 h | 6.2 h | 31k |
| Nov 2, 2018 | No storm report | 2,193 | 4% | 13 h | – | 27k |
| Oct 19, 2020 | No storm report | 1,147 | 2% | 22 h | – | 25k |
| Dec 13, 2017 | No storm report | 10,630 | 18% | 3.2 h | 2.5 h | 23k |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,531 | 4% | 12 h | – | 22k |
| Jan 26, 2018 | No storm report | 4,492 | 7% | 4.2 h | 3.2 h | 19k |
| May 20, 2018 | No storm report | 7,000 | 12% | 3.2 h | 2.8 h | 16k |
| Sep 11, 2023 | No storm report | 2,711 | 4% | 14 h | – | 16k |
| Dec 10, 2020 | No storm report | 2,100 | 3% | 14 h | – | 16k |
| Jun 24, 2023 | No storm report | 2,879 | 5% | 6.8 h | – | 16k |
| Jun 11, 2025 | No storm report | 2,828 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 16k |
| Jul 27, 2018 | No storm report | 1,475 | 2% | 10 h | – | 15k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 3,885 | 6% | 8.2 h | 5.8 h | 14k |
| Apr 13, 2021 | No storm report | 5,617 | 9% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 14k |
| Aug 7, 2016 | No storm report | 13,024 | 21% | 2.2 h | 12 min | 14k |
| Jan 1, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,171 | 2% | 12 h | – | 13k |
| Aug 16, 2023 | No storm report | 2,824 | 5% | 4.8 h | – | 13k |
| Mar 9, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,237 | 2% | 11 h | – | 13k |
| May 11, 2018 | No storm report | 4,504 | 7% | 5.5 h | 3.2 h | 13k |
| Sep 16, 2024 | No storm report | 1,732 | 3% | 10 h | – | 12k |
| Jan 26, 2024 | No storm report | 750 | 1% | 19 h | – | 12k |
| Oct 14, 2023 | No storm report | 3,813 | 6% | 3.0 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Wildfire | 1,656 | 3% | 8.8 h | – | 11k |
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 Sandoval from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 60%
- Winter storm 31%
- Windstorm 4.4%
- Wildfire 3.0%
- Thunderstorms 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Sandoval
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 |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 562 | 472 | 3.81 | 15.8 | 28k |
| Continental Divide El Coop Inc | Cooperative | 235 | 235 | 1.53 | 16.9 | 20k |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 616 | 368 | 4.70 | 17.4 | 19k |
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
- Rio Arriba 10 h
- Santa Fe 3.6 h
- Sandoval (this county) 3.6 h
- McKinley 3.1 h
- San Juan 3.0 h
- Cibola 2.5 h
- Bernalillo 1.8 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 60,725 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 →