Grant County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Grant County, New Mexico had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.88 times the US outage time per person and 2.29 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 4 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 21, 2017, reached 3,357 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 17.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	53,907	28	0
2016	88,052	47	0
2017	99,924	38	4
2018	39,201	22	1
2019	32,914	26	1
2020	98,056	38	4
2021	45,568	19	1
2022	41,403	25	2
2023	36,344	31	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
Jan 21, 2017	17.5	3,357	27,528
Oct 27, 2020	12.8	4,148	18,882
Dec 28, 2018	14.5	1,723	16,502
Dec 10, 2020	3.8	4,482	15,756
May 30, 2017	15.0	1,434	15,449

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.