San Juan County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

San Juan County, New Mexico had 4 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.92 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 12 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

3 of 5years with a major outage

11 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 26, 2020, reached 9,773 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 10.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	4,006	2	0
2020	132,842	49	1
2021	125,890	59	1
2022	162,290	88	2
2023	102,628	60	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
Oct 26, 2020	10.5	9,773	40,664
Aug 23, 2021	6.0	4,850	21,160
Jul 26, 2022	9.0	3,352	15,093
Dec 15, 2021	8.8	1,776	15,000
Jul 29, 2022	10.8	2,771	14,961

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.