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

Power outage history

Union County New Mexico

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Sep 17, 2024 76% of customers out · 90% back in 19 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – 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 19hours Sep 17, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 34% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 2,081 Estimated from population · 0 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 Union's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Union, hours without power per customer

UnionUS median countyNew Mexico average
0 5 10 15 20 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’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
Sep 17, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,583 76% 19 h 19 h 30k
Aug 3, 2023 No storm report 1,540 74% 17 h 16 h 25k
May 18, 2022 No storm report 1,448 70% 10 h 10 h 15k
Jun 3, 2020 No storm report 1,449 70% 4.5 h 16 h 6.4k
Dec 26, 2018 No storm report 1,442 69% 8.8 h 6.8 h 6.1k
Jan 8, 2022 No storm report 1,443 69% 3.5 h 3.2 h 5.0k
Nov 17, 2015 No storm report 1,466 70% 9.2 h 1.2 h 3.5k
Sep 23, 2021 No storm report 1,276 61% 3.2 h 1.0 h 3.2k
Mar 21, 2022 Winter storm 1,451 70% 1.8 h 2.5 h 2.5k
Apr 12, 2022 Windstorm 1,450 70% 1.5 h 2.0 h 2.2k
Mar 22, 2021 No storm report 517 25% 4.2 h 48 min 2.1k
Jun 7, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,571 75% 1.2 h 1.5 h 2.0k

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 +6h

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

  • No storm on record 66%
  • Thunderstorms 29%
  • Windstorm 3.1%
  • Winter storm 2.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Union

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
Springer Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 22.0 2.4k
Southwestern Electric Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 25.3 1.4k
Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) Cooperative – – – 31.4 7

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 2,081 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 →