Torrance County, New Mexico Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Torrance County, New Mexico had 11 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.15 times the US outage time per person and 2.99 times the New Mexico rate. It ranks 3 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

55 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 22, 2023, reached 3,932 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 10.5 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
2017	55,701	27	3
2018	9,717	9	0
2019	7,413	10	1
2020	15,414	14	1
2021	58,205	38	2
2022	50,338	30	0
2023	119,013	44	4

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
Apr 22, 2023	10.5	3,932	38,328
Apr 14, 2017	54.8	1,012	20,665
Aug 11, 2017	38.8	451	14,911
Oct 24, 2022	2.2	4,506	9,663
Sep 1, 2022	2.2	4,279	9,626

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.