Farmers Electric Coop, Inc, NM
Farmers Electric Coop, Inc's outage record
Farmers Electric Coop, Inc customers in New Mexico had 1.5 interruptions last year, 3.3 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is 15% more outage time than the New Mexico state average of 2.9 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Farmers Electric Coop, Inc looks like
2.2 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 13,767 customers here, Given how often Farmers Electric Coop, Inc goes out, you should consider a backup generator rather than treat it as optional.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Farmers Electric Coop, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,767 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See New Mexico as a whole, across every utility that filed: New Mexico's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.