Cochise County, Arizona Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Cochise County, Arizona had 1 major outage from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.10 times the US outage time per person and 0.45 times the Arizona rate. It ranks 12 of 13 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 7years with a major outage

8 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 20, 2022, reached 479 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 49.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	26,684	4	0
2018	21,131	14	1
2019	7,494	6	0
2020	24,689	23	0
2021	31,136	32	0
2022	78,900	31	0
2023	21,185	18	0

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
Jul 20, 2022	49.8	479	17,082
Jun 21, 2022	2.0	13,325	15,550
Jul 19, 2017	2.0	8,138	14,036
Aug 13, 2017	2.5	8,041	9,385
Jul 23, 2021	1.8	5,266	7,676

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.