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Who serves Santa Cruz County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Trico Electric Cooperative and UNS Electric ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Sulphur Springs Valley EC also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Santa Cruz County, AZ
⚡ Power here was restored about 7 hours ago — the outage peaked at 682 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 682 customers, restored in ~1 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.1 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Santa Cruz County, AZ
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
143 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Arizona norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~19,353 customers out in February 2023, restored after about 11.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Santa Cruz County
Communities in Santa Cruz County include Nogales, Patagonia, Amado, Beyerville, Elgin, Kino Springs, Rio Rico and Sonoita. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Santa Cruz County, AZ?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Santa Cruz include UNS Electric, Trico Electric Cooperative and Sulphur Springs Valley EC — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
