Rio Arriba County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico had 15 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.38 times the US outage time per person and 3.57 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 2 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

4 of 5years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2021, reached 6,030 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.5 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	Major outages
2019	3,841	4	0
2020	178,018	60	6
2021	223,088	55	5
2022	149,268	73	2
2023	119,916	87	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
Dec 15, 2021	57.5	6,030	87,436
Oct 26, 2020	40.5	1,632	47,301
Oct 1, 2021	79.8	1,943	28,229
Sep 9, 2020	22.2	1,796	21,910
Nov 14, 2022	6.2	5,580	16,846

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.