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

Power outage history

Torrance County New Mexico

11hours

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

2nd most of 20 in New Mexico 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 22, 2023 57% of customers out · 90% back in 6.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 2.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.3days Apr 14, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 30% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 20 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,851 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 Torrance'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Torrance, hours without power per customer

TorranceUS median countyNew Mexico average
0 5 10 15 20 25 10 ’17 3.6 ’18 5.6 ’19 5.0 ’20 12 ’21 10 ’22 20 ’23 20 ’24 12 ’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
Apr 22, 2023 No storm report 3,932 57% 13 h 6.5 h 38k
Nov 6, 2024 Winter storm 3,378 49% 27 h 6.5 h 36k
Apr 14, 2017 No storm report 1,012 15% 2.3 d 11 h 21k
Apr 6, 2024 Windstorm 4,423 65% 5.8 h 2.8 h 19k
Aug 11, 2017 No storm report 451 7% 39 h 11 h 15k
May 19, 2023 No storm report 2,134 31% 18 h 2.8 h 14k
Mar 14, 2025 Windstorm 1,663 24% 22 h 28 h 13k
Jun 19, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,268 19% 10 h 10 h 11k
Oct 24, 2022 No storm report 4,506 66% 2.2 h 2.2 h 9.7k
Sep 1, 2022 No storm report 4,279 62% 2.2 h 1.0 h 9.6k
Sep 16, 2025 No storm report 1,667 24% 7.5 h 1.5 h 9.0k
Jul 18, 2023 No storm report 4,345 63% 6.2 h 48 min 8.4k

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.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Torrance from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 70%
  • Windstorm 13%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Thunderstorms 4.9%
  • Flooding 1.7%
  • Wildfire 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Torrance

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
Socorro Electric Coop, Inc NM – – – 15.9 68k
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

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 6,851 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 →