Quay County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Quay County, New Mexico had 1 major outage from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

19 hrslongest major outage

May, Febhardest months

May and February made up 92% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 25, 2023, reached 6,946 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	714	2	0
2016	536	1	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	3,952	3	0
2019	292	1	0
2020	294	1	0
2021	19,787	2	0
2022	0	0	0
2023	83,720	2	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
May 25, 2023	19.2	6,946	83,662
Feb 16, 2021	7.5	3,479	15,663
Aug 29, 2021	3.8	2,551	4,124
Apr 12, 2018	1.0	3,425	2,752
Jun 13, 2018	0.8	1,989	1,040

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

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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.
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