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

Power outage history

San Miguel County New Mexico

3.6hours

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

9th most of 20 in New Mexico 45% below the national median

Worst outage on record Nov 4, 2024 52% of customers out · 90% back in 4.2 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.6h / yr State average 2.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.0 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 18hours Nov 4, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 46% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 6.9 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,786 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 San Miguel's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

San Miguel, hours without power per customer

San MiguelUS median countyNew Mexico average
0 2 4 6 8 0.8 ’15 1.3 ’16 1.3 ’17 1.4 ’18 5.5 ’19 1.3 ’20 3.5 ’21 1.8 ’22 4.0 ’23 6.9 ’24 4.4 ’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 4, 2024 Winter storm 6,089 52% 18 h 4.2 h 39k
Apr 17, 2025 Windstorm 2,321 20% 11 h 10 h 23k
Mar 13, 2019 No storm report 4,589 39% 6.0 h 4.8 h 17k
Mar 20, 2019 No storm report 8,265 70% 3.5 h 7.0 h 16k
Aug 27, 2023 No storm report 2,503 21% 9.5 h 3.0 h 16k
Jul 1, 2021 No storm report 4,019 34% 5.2 h 9.8 h 16k
Dec 5, 2022 Windstorm 2,378 20% 6.5 h 6.0 h 15k
Jul 21, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,288 19% 5.2 h 2.8 h 11k
Mar 6, 2025 Windstorm 4,216 36% 2.5 h 2.5 h 11k
Feb 7, 2025 Windstorm 1,826 15% 5.0 h 5.5 h 8.8k
Mar 5, 2019 No storm report 8,185 69% 1.2 h 5.5 h 8.7k
Jun 21, 2024 Flooding 2,298 20% 3.5 h 1.5 h 8.0k

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.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 54%
  • Windstorm 21%
  • Winter storm 16%
  • Flooding 4.3%
  • Thunderstorms 4.0%
  • Wildfire 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving San Miguel

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
Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc Cooperative 616 368 4.70 17.4 19k
Farmers Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 198 198 1.53 13.7 10k
Springer Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 22.0 2.4k

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 11,786 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 →