New Mexico power outages
Live outages across New Mexico from PNM, updated every 10 minutes. 3 counties have customers without power right now.
Right now
Normal: scattered outages
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Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.255customers without power
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A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.PNM255 / 687,329
El Paso Electric Cono live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Southwestern Public Service Cono live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Navopache Electric Coop, Incno live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
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Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.Counties with the most outages
16 counties with live data| County | Out | CustomersiA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way. | % outiCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area. |
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| Sandoval County | 240 | 79,622 | 0.30% |
| Bernalillo County | 14 | 367,493 | <0.01% |
| Valencia County | fewer than 5 | 46,986 | <0.01% |
| Catron County | 0 | 23 | 0.00% |
| Cibola County | 0 | 4 | 0.00% |
| Grant County | 0 | 24,812 | 0.00% |
| Hidalgo County | 0 | 2,439 | 0.00% |
| Lincoln County | 0 | 15,110 | 0.00% |
| Luna County | 0 | 14,902 | 0.00% |
| McKinley County | 0 | 16 | 0.00% |
| Otero County | 0 | 28,203 | 0.00% |
| San Juan County | 0 | 52 | 0.00% |
| San Miguel County | 0 | 10,360 | 0.00% |
| Santa Fe County | 0 | 95,326 | 0.00% |
| Socorro County | 0 | 2 | 0.00% |
Outage history in New Mexico
2014–2025 recordNew Mexico averaged 6.7 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 4. Half were over within 2.5 hours; the longest lasted 5.5 hours, starting March 18, 2025.
The largest on record began August 8, 2016, with 143,000 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in June.
6.7significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.1.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.1.5 dayslongest on record (November 2024)
143,000most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| August 8, 2016 | 143,000 | 5.5 hours | 408,254 |
| February 2, 2017 | 129,615 | 6 hours | 274,539 |
| November 7, 2024 | 69,309 | 1.5 days | 1,134,239 |
| February 26, 2023 | 56,008 | 10 hours | 247,945 |
| September 12, 2016 | 51,739 | 3 hours | 127,065 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
Counties in New Mexico
- Bernalillo County
- Catron County
- Chaves County
- Cibola County
- Colfax County
- Curry County
- De Baca County
- Doña Ana County
- Eddy County
- Grant County
- Guadalupe County
- Harding County
- Hidalgo County
- Lea County
- Lincoln County
- Los Alamos County
- Luna County
- McKinley County
- Mora County
- Otero County
- Quay County
- Rio Arriba County
- Roosevelt County
- Sandoval County
- San Juan County
- San Miguel County
- Santa Fe County
- Sierra County
- Socorro County
- Taos County
- Torrance County
- Union County
- Valencia County
Utilities
- PNM
- El Paso Electric Co no live feed
- Southwestern Public Service Co no live feed
- Navopache Electric Coop, Inc no live feed
- City of Farmington - (NM) no live feed
- Navajo Tribal Utility Authority no live feed
- Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) no live feed
- Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc no live feed
- Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc no live feed