Overview
- APS announced Friday that it may begin cutting power as early as 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 27, with an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 customers in northern Arizona potentially affected.
- Planned outages would target high-fire-risk communities around Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon, including Doney Park, Cosnino, Timberline, Fernwood, Mormon Lake, Sunset Crater, Tusayan, Valle, Walnut Canyon and parts of east Flagstaff.
- The utility expects outages to last roughly 12 to 24 hours and says power should be restored by the afternoon of Sunday, June 28, subject to weather assessments, safety inspections and any needed repairs.
- APS has begun notifying customers, activated text/phone/email alerts, published outage maps, set up a Flagstaff cooling center, offers medical-equipment registration and will reimburse limited amounts of ice to help preserve food.
- The action builds on APS’s public safety power shutoff program launched in 2024 and first used in April 2026 and reflects a wider Western utility practice of preemptive outages to lower wildfire risk while creating short-term disruption for residents and businesses.