San Miguel County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

San Miguel County, New Mexico had no 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 0.96 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.

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Nonelongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 14, 2019, reached 4,589 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 6.0 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
2015	7,421	4
2016	14,130	4
2017	15,132	6
2018	15,409	14
2019	60,923	14
2020	9,761	8
2021	36,916	9
2022	17,587	4
2023	38,236	11

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
Mar 14, 2019	6.0	4,589	17,293
Mar 20, 2019	3.5	8,265	16,420
Jul 2, 2021	5.2	4,019	15,733
Aug 27, 2023	7.8	2,503	15,721
Dec 6, 2022	6.5	2,378	14,544

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.