When will the power be back in Socorro, TX?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Socorro is a city of about 38,642 residents in El Paso County.
El Paso Electric has reported outages for Socorro by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-29) — so when Socorro is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around Socorro: the closest other places we track are San Elizario, about 4 miles to the south; Horizon City, about 5 miles to the northeast; El Paso, about 18 miles to the northwest; and Sunland Park, NM, about 24 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Las Cruces, NM (57 mi NW); Alamogordo, NM (88 mi N); Deming, NM (98 mi NW); Carlsbad, NM (130 mi NE); Artesia, NM (136 mi NE); Roswell, NM (157 mi NE); Town of Pecos (162 mi E); and Lovington, NM (193 mi NE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Los Lunas, NM (221 mi); northeast toward Hobbs, NM (196 mi); east toward Andrews (222 mi); southeast toward Del Rio (356 mi); west toward Douglas, AZ (194 mi); and northwest toward Show Low, AZ (285 mi).
Who serves Socorro?
We track live outage data from El Paso Electric and Rio Grande Electric Cooperative in El Paso County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map.
County context: across all of El Paso County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.8 hr. The full record for El Paso County
Common questions
Does this page show Socorro specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Socorro we have the city-level view: El Paso Electric has published outages for Socorro under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-29. When Socorro is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the El Paso County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Socorro.
