Yavapai County, Arizona Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Yavapai County, Arizona had 16 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 2.40 times the Arizona rate. It ranks 5 of 13 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 7years with a major outage

153 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 29, 2019, reached 15,581 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 65.8 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
2017	388,641	88	3
2018	348,428	112	3
2019	293,011	49	1
2020	308,604	135	2
2021	320,528	135	1
2022	325,500	142	2
2023	290,118	113	4

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
Nov 29, 2019	65.8	15,581	206,872
Mar 30, 2018	153.0	3,188	127,342
Sep 3, 2022	29.5	4,451	93,099
Mar 19, 2020	46.0	10,260	92,194
Apr 4, 2017	24.8	15,017	81,654

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.