Power outage history
Santa Fe County New Mexico
3.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
8th most of 20 in New Mexico 45% 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 Santa Fe'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 8.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Santa Fe, 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 | 10,923 | 14% | 2.2 d | 24 h | 262k |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 4,172 | 5% | 39 h | 34 h | 159k |
| Jun 19, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 10,766 | 14% | 13 h | 8.5 h | 78k |
| May 5, 2025 | Winter storm | 9,779 | 12% | 8.0 h | 5.2 h | 56k |
| Aug 8, 2024 | No storm report | 7,906 | 10% | 11 h | 2.5 h | 47k |
| Feb 2, 2017 | No storm report | 7,834 | 10% | 6.0 h | 4.0 h | 38k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 3,272 | 4% | 12 h | – | 35k |
| Jul 30, 2015 | Flooding | 15,578 | 20% | 3.0 h | 2.5 h | 35k |
| Oct 8, 2025 | No storm report | 3,660 | 5% | 6.8 h | – | 25k |
| Aug 3, 2018 | No storm report | 7,896 | 10% | 4.2 h | 3.5 h | 24k |
| Jun 23, 2022 | No storm report | 9,527 | 12% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 23k |
| Jun 5, 2017 | No storm report | 13,736 | 17% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 23k |
| Jan 4, 2023 | No storm report | 5,080 | 6% | 8.5 h | 8.0 h | 22k |
| Aug 15, 2024 | No storm report | 9,709 | 12% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 21k |
| Jan 4, 2023 | No storm report | 8,311 | 11% | 3.2 h | 2.0 h | 21k |
| Sep 9, 2020 | Windstorm | 4,721 | 6% | 6.8 h | 7.5 h | 20k |
| Jul 29, 2016 | No storm report | 4,572 | 6% | 8.5 h | 12 min | 19k |
| Jun 11, 2024 | No storm report | 10,348 | 13% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 18k |
| May 20, 2021 | No storm report | 3,073 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 18k |
| May 19, 2023 | No storm report | 2,377 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 17k |
| Apr 16, 2016 | No storm report | 6,335 | 8% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 16k |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Flooding | 2,307 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 16k |
| Oct 1, 2021 | No storm report | 5,149 | 7% | 4.2 h | 2.8 h | 16k |
| Jun 8, 2015 | No storm report | 11,520 | 15% | 1.5 h | 48 min | 15k |
| Jun 28, 2017 | No storm report | 1,884 | 2% | 8.0 h | – | 15k |
| Jun 27, 2025 | No storm report | 4,443 | 6% | 3.2 h | 7.5 h | 14k |
| Apr 22, 2023 | No storm report | 2,508 | 3% | 11 h | – | 14k |
| Sep 1, 2023 | No storm report | 1,962 | 2% | 6.8 h | – | 13k |
| Jul 10, 2024 | No storm report | 6,839 | 9% | 2.0 h | 1.2 h | 13k |
| Aug 13, 2018 | No storm report | 9,783 | 12% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 13k |
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 Santa Fe from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 57%
- Winter storm 26%
- Windstorm 7.6%
- Thunderstorms 6.6%
- Flooding 2.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Santa Fe
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 |
| Mora-San Miguel Elec Coop | NM | 323 | 265 | – | 17.4 | 60k |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 562 | 472 | 3.81 | 15.8 | 28k |
| 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
- Torrance 11 h
- Rio Arriba 10 h
- Santa Fe (this county) 3.6 h
- San Miguel 3.6 h
- Sandoval 3.6 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 78,870 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 →