Power outages in Arizona, by utility
Across 11 Arizona utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 1.5 hours in 2025 — that is 2.0× better than the national median. Arizona ranks #38 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 1.5 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 4.4 hrs
- Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA)
- Best utility
- 0.5 hrs
- Electrical Dist No3 Pinal County
- Utilities reporting
- 11
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Arizona utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gila River Indian Utility Authority (GRICUA)Cooperative | 4.4 hrs264 min | 6.3 | 1.5× worse |
| 2 | Mohave Electric Cooperative, Inc.Cooperative | 3.3 hrs197 min | — | 1.1× worse |
| 3 | Electrical Dist No2 Pinal CountyPolitical Subdivision | 2.4 hrs141 min | 1.6 | 1.3× better |
| 4 | Dixie Escalante R E A, IncCooperative | 1.7 hrs99 min | 1.3 | 1.8× better |
| 5 | Sulphur Springs Valley E C IncCooperative | 1.5 hrs92 min | 0.8 | 1.9× better |
| 6 | Trico Electric Cooperative IncCooperative | 1.5 hrs90 min | 0.7 | 2.0× better |
| 7 | UNS Electric, IncInvestor Owned | 1.4 hrs81 min | 0.9 | 2.2× better |
| 8 | Arizona Public Service CoInvestor Owned | 1.2 hrs73 min | 0.8 | 2.4× better |
| 9 | Salt River ProjectPolitical Subdivision | 1.1 hrs66 min | 1.0 | 2.7× better |
| 10 | Tucson Electric Power CoInvestor Owned | 0.7 hrs42 min | 0.6 | 4.3× better |
| 11 | Electrical Dist No3 Pinal CountyPolitical Subdivision | 0.5 hrs30 min | 0.4 | 5.9× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.