Power outage history
Valencia County New Mexico
3.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
7th most of 20 in New Mexico 42% 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 Valencia'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 8.0 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Valencia, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 2024 | Winter storm | 16,415 | 46% | 46 h | 20 h | 204k |
| Dec 28, 2018 | No storm report | 10,854 | 30% | 13 h | 8.2 h | 51k |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Windstorm | 9,557 | 27% | 16 h | 11 h | 39k |
| Sep 10, 2019 | No storm report | 8,163 | 23% | 4.8 h | 2.2 h | 29k |
| May 27, 2016 | No storm report | 10,430 | 29% | 3.8 h | 3.0 h | 25k |
| Apr 2, 2023 | No storm report | 8,332 | 23% | 4.2 h | 2.0 h | 22k |
| Mar 18, 2018 | No storm report | 6,621 | 19% | 5.8 h | 2.2 h | 22k |
| Aug 27, 2016 | No storm report | 3,289 | 9% | 7.8 h | 1.2 h | 21k |
| Jul 6, 2019 | No storm report | 1,650 | 5% | 13 h | – | 18k |
| Sep 12, 2016 | No storm report | 5,479 | 15% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 15k |
| Sep 14, 2019 | No storm report | 7,841 | 22% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 14k |
| Jul 28, 2017 | No storm report | 2,215 | 6% | 9.5 h | 15 h | 14k |
| Apr 17, 2018 | No storm report | 5,572 | 16% | 2.5 h | 12 min | 13k |
| Mar 23, 2018 | No storm report | 4,114 | 12% | 2.8 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,460 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 11k |
| Feb 14, 2021 | Winter storm | 4,742 | 13% | 5.5 h | 3.2 h | 11k |
| Aug 8, 2016 | No storm report | 19,416 | 54% | 48 min | 48 min | 10k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Wildfire | 1,850 | 5% | 6.8 h | 2.8 h | 9.3k |
| Aug 24, 2022 | No storm report | 1,277 | 4% | 7.2 h | – | 9.3k |
| Jul 5, 2018 | Flooding | 1,355 | 4% | 11 h | – | 9.1k |
| Apr 12, 2018 | No storm report | 5,472 | 15% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 8.8k |
| Feb 19, 2018 | No storm report | 1,226 | 3% | 13 h | – | 7.7k |
| May 1, 2021 | No storm report | 2,072 | 6% | 10 h | 9.0 h | 7.4k |
| May 23, 2019 | No storm report | 1,891 | 5% | 9.2 h | 2.8 h | 6.7k |
| Jan 16, 2024 | No storm report | 1,506 | 4% | 4.0 h | – | 6.0k |
| Dec 14, 2015 | No storm report | 559 | 2% | 13 h | – | 6.0k |
| Sep 15, 2015 | No storm report | 4,689 | 13% | 1.2 h | 12 min | 5.9k |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,106 | 6% | 6.2 h | 2.8 h | 5.8k |
| Jan 4, 2025 | No storm report | 5,309 | 15% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 5.7k |
| Aug 1, 2022 | No storm report | 921 | 3% | 8.2 h | – | 5.5k |
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 Valencia from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 56%
- Winter storm 31%
- Windstorm 8.7%
- Wildfire 1.4%
- Flooding 1.2%
- Thunderstorms 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Valencia
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 |
| Continental Divide El Coop Inc | Cooperative | 235 | 235 | 1.53 | 16.9 | 20k |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 616 | 368 | 4.70 | 17.4 | 19k |
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
- Torrance 11 h
- Valencia (this county) 3.8 h
- Cibola 2.5 h
- Bernalillo 1.8 h
- Socorro 0.3 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 35,686 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 →