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Gas Line Repair in Arizona
Across the 47 Arizona towns we route calls in, 32% of households are on mains gas and 1% on bottled or tank propane. Those are two different arrangements with two different answers about who owns the pipe.
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Of households in the 47 Arizona towns covered here, 32% take mains gas and 1% use propane from a tank. Which arrangement a property has is what settles who is responsible for the pipe in the ground.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else — not us. The full list, in order.
How Arizona is supplied
| Households in Arizona | Share | Homes |
|---|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 32% | 724,637 |
| Bottled or tank propane | 1% | 30,745 |
Weighted across 2,241,970 occupied homes. The spread inside the state is the point: Marana is highest on mains at 59%, and Rio Verde has the largest propane share at 14%. A state figure describes neither.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. B25040 records what heats the house, which is the best available guide to whether a property has mains gas or a tank — it does not count service lines directly.
The two arrangements, and why the difference is not cosmetic
Of the 47 towns we route in here, 10 are mostly on mains gas, 0 have a substantial propane share, 34 are split between the two and 3 use very little gas of any kind.
On a mains connection, 49 CFR § 192.3 ends the regulated service line at "the outlet of the customer meter or at the connection to a customer’s piping, whichever is further downstream" — so part of the system is the operator’s. On propane there is no service line and no meter boundary, and the whole installation is the property owner’s.
Source: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Before anyone digs, anywhere in Arizona
PHMSA describes excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and puts a caller’s chance of avoiding one at 99 percent. 8-1-1 is nationwide, toll-free and free to use. Ask what they will and will not mark — privately owned buried line frequently is not.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
Checking a plumber in Arizona
Arizona licenses are issued by the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. Arizona licenses plumbing contractors rather than individual journeymen.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
Towns we route in Arizona
- Apache Junction 12% mains · 3% propane
- Avondale 34% mains · 1% propane
- Buckeye 33% mains · 1% propane
- Carefree 56% mains · 0% propane
- Casa Grande 25% mains · 2% propane
- Cashion 32% mains · 0% propane
- Cave Creek 44% mains · 3% propane
- Chandler 34% mains · 1% propane
- Coolidge 24% mains · 4% propane
- El Mirage 17% mains · 1% propane
- Eloy 30% mains · 4% propane
- Florence 32% mains · 1% propane
- Fort McDowell 0% mains · 10% propane
- Fountain Hills 16% mains · 0% propane
- Gila Bend 44% mains · under 1% propane
- Gilbert 43% mains · 1% propane
- Glendale 20% mains · 1% propane
- Gold Canyon 33% mains · 1% propane
- Goodyear 52% mains · 1% propane
- Green Valley 58% mains · 2% propane
- Laveen 36% mains · 2% propane
- Litchfield Park 51% mains · 2% propane
- Marana 59% mains · 3% propane
- Maricopa 34% mains · 7% propane
- Mesa 19% mains · 1% propane
- Morristown 20% mains · 4% propane
- New River 37% mains · 2% propane
- Paradise Valley 43% mains · 1% propane
- Peoria 38% mains · 1% propane
- Phoenix 23% mains · 1% propane
- Queen Creek 49% mains · 2% propane
- Rio Verde 7% mains · 14% propane
- Sahuarita 56% mains · 4% propane
- San Tan Valley 40% mains · 2% propane
- Scottsdale 30% mains · 1% propane
- Sun City 28% mains · 1% propane
- Sun City West 40% mains · 1% propane
- Surprise 44% mains · 2% propane
- Tempe 18% mains · under 1% propane
- Tolleson 20% mains · 2% propane
- Tonopah 4% mains · 2% propane
- Tucson 51% mains · 2% propane
- Vail 59% mains · 5% propane
- Waddell 47% mains · 2% propane
- Wickenburg 27% mains · 7% propane
- Wittmann 7% mains · 6% propane
- Youngtown 18% mains · 1% propane
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. Gas work heads this site; other plumbing is handled too.
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