When will the power be back in Santa Cruz County, AZ?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Santa Cruz County, AZ right now.

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Elsewhere in Arizona: 17 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 9:01 PM MST.

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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

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 (median).

Every outage behind these figures (6)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Oct 3, 2026	682	~1 hr	wind/storm
Sep 12, 2026	391	~5.2 hr	weather alert
Aug 17, 2026	1,951	~4.2 hr	no severe weather
Aug 10, 2026	694	~1.3 hr	wind/storm
Aug 9, 2026	877	~2 hr	weather alert
Aug 3, 2026	1,100	~23.3 hr	heat event

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, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Communities covered

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.

This page also serves Nogales: its outages are counted in this county's total.

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.

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