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2020 Gila County, AZ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gila County, AZ went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 223K customer-hours (Arizona average 1.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 14 Arizona counties and 1012th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AZ, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arizona customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Gila County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 19, 2020 04:00 | August 19, 2020 08:15 | 4h 15m | 3,985 | 12K |
| 2 | August 19, 2020 22:45 | August 20, 2020 07:45 | 9h | 3,984 | 3,345 |
| 3 | July 23, 2020 13:15 | July 23, 2020 13:30 | 15m | 3,982 | 996 |
| 4 | September 19, 2020 21:15 | September 19, 2020 22:30 | 1h 15m | 3,433 | 4,291 |
| 5 | July 20, 2020 16:15 | July 20, 2020 21:00 | 4h 45m | 3,428 | 7,860 |
| 6 | July 14, 2020 21:00 | July 14, 2020 22:15 | 1h 15m | 3,427 | 4,284 |
| 7 | May 6, 2020 16:00 | May 6, 2020 20:15 | 4h 15m | 3,421 | 3,042 |
| 8 | March 19, 2020 04:15 | March 19, 2020 10:30 | 6h 15m | 3,416 | 21K |
| 9 | March 4, 2020 15:00 | March 4, 2020 18:15 | 3h 15m | 3,358 | 6,753 |
| 10 | May 23, 2020 00:45 | May 23, 2020 02:00 | 1h 15m | 3,015 | 3,769 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 79 reached 100+ customers, 33 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Gila County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Public Service Co | 2020 | 84 min | 0.86 | 79 min | 0.85 |
| Salt River Project | 2020 | 47 min | 0.75 | 41 min | 0.69 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Navopache Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| USBIA-San Carlos Project | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 90% of Arizona's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,489 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Gila County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gila County, AZ annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/arizona/gila-county