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2023 Cochise County, AZ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cochise County, AZ went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Arizona average 2.1 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 14 Arizona counties and 2852nd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AZ, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arizona customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cochise County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 17, 2023 17:45 | March 17, 2023 18:00 | 15m | 4,771 | 1,193 |
| 2 | July 14, 2023 04:00 | July 14, 2023 08:00 | 4h | 2,845 | 2,846 |
| 3 | January 1, 2023 20:30 | January 1, 2023 22:00 | 1h 30m | 1,526 | 2,267 |
| 4 | August 8, 2023 04:45 | August 8, 2023 05:15 | 30m | 1,497 | 749 |
| 5 | June 14, 2023 15:15 | June 14, 2023 21:15 | 6h | 1,126 | 6,756 |
| 6 | July 11, 2023 22:30 | July 12, 2023 00:45 | 2h 15m | 1,069 | 1,300 |
| 7 | September 13, 2023 05:15 | September 13, 2023 07:15 | 2h | 860 | 1,720 |
| 8 | July 27, 2023 23:15 | July 28, 2023 02:00 | 2h 45m | 621 | 574 |
| 9 | August 18, 2023 02:15 | August 18, 2023 07:30 | 5h 15m | 494 | 659 |
| 10 | July 7, 2023 22:30 | July 8, 2023 02:15 | 3h 45m | 488 | 773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 28 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Cochise County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| Sulphur Springs Valley E C Inc | 2023 | 2.3 hrs | 1.13 | 1.5 hrs | 0.81 |
| Tucson Electric Power Co | 2023 | 2.8 hrs | 0.98 | 62 min | 0.72 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Arizona's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 80,227 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. Cochise County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cochise County, AZ annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/arizona/cochise-county