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2024 Cochise County, AZ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cochise County, AZ went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 226K customer-hours (Arizona average 1.7 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 14 Arizona counties and 2150th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AZ, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arizona customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cochise County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 3, 2024 22:00 | July 3, 2024 23:30 | 1h 30m | 718,642 | 180K |
| 2 | November 13, 2024 22:30 | November 13, 2024 23:30 | 1h | 13,894 | 11K |
| 3 | July 17, 2024 04:00 | July 17, 2024 07:00 | 3h | 3,114 | 4,980 |
| 4 | July 8, 2024 13:00 | July 8, 2024 14:00 | 1h | 2,510 | 2,510 |
| 5 | May 20, 2024 23:45 | May 21, 2024 03:00 | 3h 15m | 2,084 | 5,771 |
| 6 | May 10, 2024 22:00 | May 10, 2024 22:15 | 15m | 1,610 | 403 |
| 7 | October 29, 2024 17:30 | October 29, 2024 18:00 | 30m | 1,401 | 461 |
| 8 | August 24, 2024 05:00 | August 24, 2024 06:30 | 1h 30m | 1,129 | 1,694 |
| 9 | August 24, 2024 21:30 | August 24, 2024 21:45 | 15m | 1,129 | 282 |
| 10 | June 25, 2024 00:00 | June 25, 2024 01:30 | 1h 30m | 1,108 | 1,662 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 35 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 87 min | 0.93 | 81 min | 0.88 |
| Sulphur Springs Valley E C Inc | 2024 | 2.3 hrs | 1.32 | 2.1 hrs | 0.92 |
| Tucson Electric Power Co | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 | 68 min | 0.85 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/arizona/cochise-county