Lincoln County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.68 times the US outage time per person and 4.34 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 1 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

78 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Janhardest months

April and January made up 73% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 12, 2022, reached 12,230 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.2 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	16,843	16	1
2016	18,420	16	0
2017	33,051	17	0
2018	19,294	18	1
2019	96,606	18	1
2020	31,343	13	1
2021	20,831	10	0
2022	481,548	20	1
2023	20,365	15	0

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
Apr 12, 2022	78.2	12,230	458,835
Jan 20, 2019	17.2	7,887	57,113
Feb 28, 2017	3.0	14,165	23,246
Feb 5, 2020	13.5	2,932	18,108
Nov 28, 2015	8.5	1,708	7,190

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.