Santa Cruz County, Arizona Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Santa Cruz County, Arizona had 1 major outage from 2016 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.34 times the US outage time per person and 1.54 times the Arizona rate. It ranks 6 of 13 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 8years with a major outage

12 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 1, 2023, reached 19,353 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 11.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	13,458	11	0
2017	13,002	6	0
2018	26,901	22	0
2019	20,626	19	0
2020	10,203	10	0
2021	19,630	19	0
2022	40,234	25	0
2023	190,621	10	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 1, 2023	11.8	19,353	178,563
Feb 21, 2022	1.0	18,825	11,653
Aug 19, 2017	2.0	4,492	8,984
Aug 23, 2018	4.8	1,849	6,614
Aug 1, 2022	3.8	2,799	6,339

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.