When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Sunland Park, NM?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Doña Ana County, New Mexico
12
customers reported out in Sunland Park · live from El Paso Electric (TX/NM) · updated 1:00 AM MDT
Utility restoration time for Sunland Park: posted time has passed
No clear recovery trend yet for Sunland Park — outages aren't steadily declining, so we can't give a dependable time yet.
Across the whole county (Doña Ana, New Mexico, all utilities): 12 reported out — a broader count from a different source; don't add it to the Sunland Park figure above.
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Utility informationOur restoration forecast
Official ETA, when the utility posts oneIndependent estimated return window when trend data allows — often available first
Utility-reported status & customer countsConfidence range + whether the outage is growing, stable, or restoring

How the forecast works: we analyze how quickly customers are being restored, whether the outage is still growing, current weather, outage size, and similar past outages in this area. Every completed forecast is compared with when power actually returned. As of Aug 20, 8,019 completed outages have been graded this way — median error 1.8 hours across the most recent 600 of them (about 2 days), and we publish the misses. See the full record (how it works). Independent and unofficial: never the utility's commitment.

Track current power outages in Sunland Park, New Mexico — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Sunland Park is a city in Doña Ana County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Sunland Park directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Sunland Park

Sunland Park is a city of about 18,185 residents in Doña Ana County.

None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Sunland Park by name, so this page reports the Doña Ana County county-wide view, which covers Sunland Park. If a serving utility does name Sunland Park during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.

ZIP codes in Sunland Park: 88063 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Sunland Park: the closest other places we track are El Paso, TX, about 10 miles to the east; Socorro, TX, about 24 miles to the southeast; San Elizario, TX, about 26 miles to the southeast; Horizon City, TX, about 26 miles to the east. Also nearby: Las Cruces (36 mi N), Deming (74 mi NW), Alamogordo (82 mi NE), Carlsbad (144 mi E), Artesia (145 mi NE), Roswell (161 mi NE), Town of Pecos, TX (184 mi E), Lovington (205 mi E). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Los Lunas (207 mi); northeast toward Clovis (267 mi); east toward Hobbs (210 mi); southeast toward Del Rio, TX (380 mi); west toward Tucson, AZ (252 mi); northwest toward Show Low, AZ (261 mi).

Who serves Sunland Park?

We track live outage data from El Paso Electric ↗, Otero County Electric Coop in Doña Ana County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. See the forecast panel above for how the estimate works — its inputs, its independence from the utility, and how every completed forecast is scored against what actually happened. Outages below 5 customers are too small for a meaningful area-wide estimate — the page says so instead of guessing.

Outage history — Doña Ana County, NM (covers Sunland Park)
Last significant outage: Aug 16, 2026 — peaked at 264 customers, restored in ~3 hr (weather alert).
Across the 12 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Doña Ana County, NM (covers Sunland Park)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 729 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 13 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the New Mexico norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~27,917 customers out in January 2017, restored after about 2 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Sunland Park, NM?

It depends on the cause and how many crews are working. When's the Power Back? combines the live outage count, the current restoration rate, weather, and local history into an independent estimate for the Sunland Park area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page.

How do I check the power outage status in Sunland Park, NM?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Sunland Park area: current customers out, the affected areas on the map, and an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data is available, refreshed about every 15 minutes from utilities' own outage maps and the federal government's county outage data. To narrow it to your own street, search a Sunland Park ZIP code — 88063 — and the map opens on that area. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Sunland Park, NM?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Doña Ana County include El Paso Electric, Otero County Electric Coop; confirm your own provider, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Does this page show Sunland Park specifically, or the whole county?

Right now, the Doña Ana County county-wide view, which covers Sunland Park. No utility outage map we follow has yet listed an outage for Sunland Park by name; utilities here have so far reported only county-wide totals, or used area names we cannot match to Sunland Park. If that changes during an outage, the city's own count and restoration time appear here automatically. El Paso (10 mi E) is the closest place we track separately.

How accurate is the restoration estimate?

Every estimate is later graded against when the tracked outage was substantially restored (~90% of customers back), and the track record is published on our accuracy page. Estimates firm up a few hours into an outage once a steady restoration trend appears; very small outages are marked "too small to estimate" rather than guessed.

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