Mohave County, Arizona Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Mohave County, Arizona had 3 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.19 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the Arizona rate. It ranks 10 of 13 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 8years with a major outage

53 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2021, reached 4,434 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.8 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	34,257	29	0
2017	78,108	17	1
2018	63,019	39	0
2019	42,980	33	0
2020	32,174	26	0
2021	298,478	61	1
2022	269,796	43	1
2023	38,909	32	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
Aug 29, 2021	48.8	4,434	135,412
Sep 5, 2022	52.8	7,822	117,427
Sep 7, 2022	83.2	808	61,358
Sep 3, 2017	8.2	8,485	33,238
Jan 31, 2021	13.5	2,153	28,879

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.