Chaves County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chaves County, New Mexico had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.91 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 13 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 13, 2019, reached 9,454 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New Mexico counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	71,026	36	1
2016	15,262	27	0
2017	24,662	31	0
2018	42,966	35	0
2019	98,759	28	1
2020	50,404	32	1
2021	83,054	29	1
2022	36,396	28	0
2023	69,699	43	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 13, 2019	35.5	9,454	66,091
Feb 16, 2021	10.8	13,467	58,529
Dec 30, 2015	11.8	2,497	29,264
Jul 25, 2020	18.8	2,165	16,325
Feb 26, 2023	11.0	4,357	14,010

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.