Otero County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Otero County, New Mexico had no major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.20 times the US outage time per person and 0.53 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 17 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

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June and July made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 20, 2019, reached 6,348 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 3.0 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	23,388	22
2016	46,742	24
2017	50,336	32
2018	21,966	24
2019	51,646	26
2020	57,567	30
2021	15,776	13
2022	7,130	8
2023	39,411	23

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
Jan 20, 2019	3.0	6,348	19,044
Jul 14, 2020	2.8	16,919	17,909
Feb 28, 2017	3.0	4,953	14,115
Jun 30, 2019	2.0	7,933	13,579
Feb 14, 2023	6.8	2,717	12,422

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.