Yuma County, Arizona Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Yuma County, Arizona had 12 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.26 times the US outage time per person and 1.19 times the Arizona rate. It ranks 7 of 13 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

37 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 24, 2019, reached 14,152 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.0 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
2017	138,172	43	2
2018	147,369	68	2
2019	313,208	54	2
2020	72,048	52	0
2021	78,993	50	0
2022	68,980	48	2
2023	169,276	67	4

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
Sep 24, 2019	37.0	14,152	66,380
Mar 11, 2019	12.5	5,802	50,405
May 15, 2019	34.0	1,380	45,440
Aug 20, 2023	13.8	9,794	42,802
Oct 1, 2018	18.8	3,598	36,375

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.