Power outage history
Socorro County New Mexico
0.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
95% 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 Socorro's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 38 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Socorro, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2019 | No storm report | 111 | 1% | 8.0 h | – | 888 |
| Oct 28, 2024 | No storm report | 527 | 6% | 1.5 h | 4.8 h | 790 |
| Oct 31, 2024 | No storm report | 295 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 672 |
| Feb 27, 2024 | Windstorm | 135 | 1% | 5.0 h | – | 620 |
| Apr 24, 2019 | No storm report | 259 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 605 |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Flooding | 274 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 507 |
| May 12, 2021 | No storm report | 125 | 1% | 4.0 h | – | 500 |
| Oct 24, 2019 | No storm report | 131 | 1% | 3.8 h | – | 491 |
| Oct 28, 2024 | No storm report | 527 | 6% | 48 min | 48 min | 395 |
| Jul 26, 2019 | No storm report | 143 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 354 |
| May 21, 2023 | No storm report | 123 | 1% | 2.2 h | – | 277 |
| Jun 29, 2021 | No storm report | 111 | 1% | 2.2 h | – | 250 |
| May 11, 2021 | No storm report | 125 | 1% | 2.0 h | – | 250 |
| Apr 26, 2019 | No storm report | 106 | 1% | 2.0 h | – | 212 |
| Jun 17, 2023 | No storm report | 103 | 1% | 2.0 h | – | 201 |
| May 26, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 215 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 191 |
| Jun 8, 2023 | No storm report | 445 | 5% | 48 min | – | 173 |
| Jul 19, 2024 | No storm report | 308 | 3% | 30 min | – | 154 |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Winter storm | 98 | 1% | 1.2 h | – | 122 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | No storm report | 115 | 1% | 1.0 h | – | 114 |
| Feb 14, 2024 | No storm report | 123 | 1% | 48 min | – | 92 |
| Apr 11, 2023 | No storm report | 123 | 1% | 48 min | – | 92 |
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 Socorro from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 82%
- Windstorm 7.8%
- Flooding 6.4%
- Thunderstorms 2.4%
- Winter storm 1.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Socorro
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 |
| Sierra Electric Coop, Inc | NM | 167 | 52 | – | 19.3 | 22k |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 616 | 368 | 4.70 | 17.4 | 19k |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 19.6 | 17k |
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.
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 9,451 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 →