Power outages in New Mexico
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
4,752
customers reported out statewide · 10 counties reporting · 1 with 50+ customers out
Updated 6:25 AM MDT.
Includes 3 that a utility reports without saying which county — search your address for your exact status.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Grant — 4,663 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All New Mexico counties (33)
Utility coverage in New Mexico
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Public Service Co of NM (PNM) · El Paso Electric (TX/NM) · Xcel Energy — Southwestern Public Service (TX/NM)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Farmington Electric Utility System (NM) · Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative (NM) · Otero County Electric Cooperative (NM) · Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative (NM) · Central Valley Electric Cooperative (NM) · Farmers' Electric Cooperative of New Mexico (NM) · Columbus Electric Cooperative (NM) · Navopache Electric Cooperative (AZ) · Rio Grande Electric Cooperative (TX) · Tri-County Electric Cooperative (OK)
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving New Mexico.
Historical outage patterns in New Mexico
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 6,885 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in New Mexico between 2014 and 2025 for the 27 counties the federal record covers — 69 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2.8 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (41% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2025.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~117,576 customers out in Bernalillo County in February 2017, restored after about 6.3 hr.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: February 2021 (5 counties) and August 2016 (5 counties).
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve New Mexico?
Electric utilities we track in New Mexico include Public Service Co of NM, El Paso Electric, Xcel Energy — Southwestern Public Service, Farmington Electric Utility System and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.