Sandoval County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sandoval County, New Mexico had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 14 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

49 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 8, 2016, reached 23,233 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 3.5 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	39,274	19	2
2016	154,324	36	0
2017	106,296	19	0
2018	112,594	24	1
2019	135,441	27	3
2020	149,608	56	2
2021	104,346	48	1
2022	183,393	67	2
2023	161,760	72	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
Aug 8, 2016	3.5	23,233	70,255
Nov 29, 2019	22.0	2,778	48,798
Jul 16, 2017	3.2	14,198	40,400
Oct 26, 2020	44.0	2,831	35,442
Nov 2, 2018	12.5	2,193	27,398

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.