Bernalillo County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bernalillo County, New Mexico had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.28 times the US outage time per person and 0.74 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 16 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 8, 2020, reached 14,590 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New Mexico counties

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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	200,360	93	0
2016	615,681	162	1
2017	571,544	132	0
2018	496,164	191	1
2019	415,990	178	0
2020	612,567	148	2
2021	443,231	130	2
2022	403,007	160	0
2023	446,764	170	3

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
Sep 8, 2020	79.0	14,590	383,662
Feb 2, 2017	6.2	117,576	234,418
Aug 8, 2016	7.8	56,811	179,191
Sep 12, 2016	3.0	42,461	103,474
Feb 26, 2023	26.5	33,049	84,269

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.