Santa Fe County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Santa Fe County, New Mexico had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.44 times the US outage time per person and 1.13 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 6 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

44 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 11, 2017, reached 4,172 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.8 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	115,685	32	0
2016	199,703	40	0
2017	294,450	46	2
2018	131,350	65	1
2019	114,403	53	1
2020	127,966	73	2
2021	154,622	65	2
2022	171,258	71	1
2023	201,096	90	2

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 11, 2017	38.8	4,172	159,078
Aug 8, 2016	2.5	48,797	119,900
Feb 2, 2017	6.0	7,834	37,880
Dec 15, 2021	11.8	3,272	35,420
Jul 30, 2015	3.0	15,578	35,246

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.