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

Power outage history

Otero County New Mexico

4.3hours

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

6th most of 20 in New Mexico 34% below the national median

Worst outage on record Nov 18, 2024 15% of customers out · 90% back in 8.8 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.3h / yr State average 2.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.4 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 40hours Nov 17, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 12% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 11 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 18,452 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 Otero'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Otero, hours without power per customer

OteroUS median countyNew Mexico average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 1.6 ’15 2.9 ’16 2.9 ’17 1.4 ’18 3.3 ’19 4.2 ’20 1.3 ’21 0.7 ’22 2.8 ’23 10 ’24 11 ’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
Nov 17, 2024 No storm report 2,688 15% 40 h 8.8 h 44k
Jul 19, 2025 No storm report 3,930 21% 7.0 h 1.5 h 27k
Aug 12, 2025 No storm report 5,971 32% 10 h 6.8 h 23k
Jun 12, 2025 No storm report 6,623 36% 9.2 h 7.2 h 20k
Jan 20, 2019 No storm report 6,348 34% 3.0 h 10 h 19k
Jul 13, 2020 No storm report 16,919 92% 2.8 h 1.5 h 17k
Jan 8, 2024 No storm report 9,525 52% 2.0 h 1.5 h 16k
Feb 28, 2017 No storm report 4,953 27% 3.0 h 12 h 14k
Mar 18, 2025 Windstorm 2,066 11% 10 h 6.2 h 14k
Jun 30, 2019 No storm report 7,933 43% 2.0 h 2.0 h 14k
Feb 14, 2023 No storm report 2,717 15% 6.8 h 6.5 h 12k
Mar 14, 2025 Windstorm 2,664 14% 11 h 9.0 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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +8h

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 Otero from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 88%
  • Windstorm 7.0%
  • Thunderstorms 2.8%
  • Winter storm 1.0%
  • Flooding 0.7%
  • Heat 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Otero

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
Otero County Electric Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 19.6 17k
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

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 18,452 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 →