Los Alamos County, NM
How often Los Alamos County goes out
Los Alamos County customers in New Mexico rarely lose power at all: 0.8 interruptions last year, adding up to just 20 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 89% less outage time than the New Mexico state average of 2.9 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Los Alamos County looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 24 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 9,045 customers here, With a record this steady, Los Alamos County customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Los Alamos County files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,045 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in New Mexico is covered too: see New Mexico's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.