Power Outages in Santa Cruz County, AZ
No live outage feed is available for Santa Cruz County, AZ yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 28.1 hours.
Santa Cruz County, AZ is served by local tracked utilities.
Santa Cruz County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Santa Cruz County right now.
Santa Cruz County has been under 37 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Flood Watch on July 17, 2026.
- Flash Flood Warning ×14
- Blowing Dust Advisory ×7
- Flood Watch ×7
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×4
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×4
- Flood Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Santa Cruz County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Santa Cruz County went about 28.1 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 19,353 customers.
Worst year here was 2023 (peak 19,353 customers out) · decade average 32.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 24 | 5,308 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | 4,492 | 10.5 |
| 2018 | 35 | 2,126 | 23.0 |
| 2019 | 42 | 4,996 | 18.4 |
| 2020 | 83 | 10,152 | 12.9 |
| 2021 | 42 | 2,030 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 65 | 18,825 | 34.4 |
| 2023 | 47 | 19,353 | 145.5 |
| 2024 | 59 | 2,655 | 24.7 |
| 2025 | 61 | 2,487 | 28.1 |
Relatively High wildfire exposure · 32.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Santa Cruz County: FAQ
- How often does Santa Cruz County, AZ lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Santa Cruz County, AZ logged 61 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 28.1 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Santa Cruz County, AZ?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 19,353 customers without power, beginning February 1, 2023 and lasting about 11h 45m.
- Is there a power outage in Santa Cruz County, AZ right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Santa Cruz County, AZ. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Santa Cruz County.
85611, 85621, 85624, 85637, 85640, 85646, 85648
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/04023 and /api/v1/counties/04023/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Arizona customers).