Power outages in New Mexico, by utility
Across 11 New Mexico utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 3.3 hours in 2025 — that is 1.1× the national median. New Mexico ranks #16 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 3.3 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 9.4 hrs
- Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc
- Best utility
- 0.3 hrs
- Los Alamos County - (NM)
- Utilities reporting
- 11
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting New Mexico utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 9.4 hrs562 min | 3.8 | 3.2× worse |
| 2 | Central Valley Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 5.4 hrs326 min | 2.2 | 1.8× worse |
| 3 | Kit Carson Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 5.1 hrs305 min | 2.3 | 1.7× worse |
| 4 | Southwestern Public Service CoInvestor Owned | 3.9 hrs235 min | 1.4 | 1.3× worse |
| 5 | Continental Divide El Coop IncCooperative | 3.9 hrs235 min | 1.5 | 1.3× worse |
| 6 | Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM)Cooperative | 3.3 hrs198 min | 1.5 | 1.1× worse |
| 7 | Rio Grande Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 3.2 hrs195 min | — | 1.1× worse |
| 8 | Public Service Co of NMInvestor Owned | 2.1 hrs125 min | 0.9 | 1.4× better |
| 9 | El Paso Electric CoInvestor Owned | 1.9 hrs116 min | 1.2 | 1.5× better |
| 10 | City of Farmington - (NM)Municipal | 1.3 hrs75 min | 0.6 | 2.4× better |
| 11 | Los Alamos County - (NM)Municipal | 0.3 hrs20 min | 0.8 | 9.1× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.