Doña Ana County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Doña Ana County, New Mexico had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.37 times the US outage time per person and 0.95 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 10 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 12, 2021, reached 7,092 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.0 hours.

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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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	289,448	69	1
2016	193,103	62	0
2017	219,738	69	0
2018	130,105	71	1
2019	155,703	70	2
2020	199,863	69	2
2021	268,928	73	1
2022	196,622	73	0
2023	199,732	81	2

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
Jul 12, 2021	26.0	7,092	51,168
Dec 27, 2015	23.2	5,251	49,550
Aug 24, 2020	16.2	7,813	48,834
Feb 26, 2023	18.8	10,341	48,228
May 3, 2015	2.5	14,688	33,226

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.