Power outage history
San Juan County New Mexico
3.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
13th most of 20 in New Mexico 54% 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 San Juan'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 5.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
San Juan, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,267 | 10% | 2.2 d | 2.0 d | 107k |
| Oct 25, 2020 | Windstorm | 9,773 | 16% | 7.0 h | 4.8 h | 39k |
| Nov 7, 2024 | Winter storm | 3,131 | 5% | 12 h | 8.8 h | 28k |
| Aug 21, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 8,175 | 14% | 4.8 h | 2.8 h | 26k |
| Aug 23, 2021 | No storm report | 4,850 | 8% | 6.0 h | 3.8 h | 21k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,776 | 3% | 8.8 h | – | 15k |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Flooding | 3,352 | 6% | 8.2 h | 6.5 h | 15k |
| Mar 17, 2024 | Winter storm | 966 | 2% | 15 h | – | 14k |
| Aug 25, 2022 | No storm report | 3,006 | 5% | 6.8 h | – | 14k |
| Jun 20, 2024 | No storm report | 5,935 | 10% | 4.0 h | 2.8 h | 14k |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Windstorm | 2,771 | 5% | 6.8 h | – | 13k |
| Mar 16, 2023 | No storm report | 3,413 | 6% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 12k |
| Dec 10, 2025 | No storm report | 4,946 | 8% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 12k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | No storm report | 9,341 | 15% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 11k |
| Oct 15, 2024 | No storm report | 1,668 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 14, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,181 | 9% | 2.5 h | 48 min | 10k |
| Aug 4, 2020 | No storm report | 1,662 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 9.1k |
| Aug 23, 2023 | No storm report | 1,913 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 8.6k |
| Dec 19, 2021 | No storm report | 996 | 2% | 8.8 h | – | 8.5k |
| Mar 22, 2022 | No storm report | 2,312 | 4% | 3.5 h | – | 8.1k |
| Jun 28, 2022 | No storm report | 6,611 | 11% | 1.5 h | 30 min | 7.7k |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Flooding | 3,276 | 5% | 3.8 h | 1.5 h | 7.7k |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,333 | 6% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 7.5k |
| May 19, 2025 | No storm report | 877 | 1% | 11 h | – | 7.3k |
| Jun 8, 2023 | No storm report | 4,942 | 8% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 7.1k |
| Nov 16, 2025 | No storm report | 3,840 | 6% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 6.7k |
| Aug 4, 2022 | No storm report | 2,143 | 4% | 3.0 h | – | 6.4k |
| Apr 22, 2022 | Windstorm | 3,803 | 6% | 4.8 h | 4.0 h | 6.1k |
| Mar 21, 2020 | Tornadoes | 2,115 | 4% | 3.0 h | – | 6.0k |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Winter storm | 1,625 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 5.9k |
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 San Juan from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 57%
- Thunderstorms 23%
- Windstorm 8.2%
- Winter storm 7.3%
- Flooding 3.7%
- Tornadoes 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving San Juan
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 |
| City of Farmington | Municipal | 75 | – | 0.59 | 12.9 | 36k |
| Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 562 | 472 | 3.81 | 15.8 | 28k |
| City of Aztec | NM | – | – | – | – | 16k |
| Navajo Tribal Utility Authority | State | 191 | 191 | 2.19 | 16.4 | 9.8k |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | Federal | – | – | – | – | – |
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
- Archuleta, CO 8.0 h
- Sandoval 3.6 h
- La Plata, CO 3.5 h
- McKinley 3.1 h
- San Juan (this county) 3.0 h
- San Juan, UT 1.9 h
- Apache, AZ 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 60,294 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 →