Power outages in Nevada, by utility
Across 5 Nevada utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 1.6 hours in 2025 — that is 1.9× better than the national median. Nevada ranks #37 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 1.6 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 5.8 hrs
- City of Boulder City - (NV)
- Best utility
- 0.2 hrs
- Overton Power District No 5
- Utilities reporting
- 5
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Nevada utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of Boulder City - (NV)Municipal | 5.8 hrs345 min | 0.9 | 1.9× worse |
| 2 | Sierra Pacific Power CoInvestor Owned | 4.8 hrs288 min | 2.5 | 1.6× worse |
| 3 | Valley Electric Assn, IncCooperative | 1.5 hrs93 min | 0.8 | 1.9× better |
| 4 | Nevada Power CoInvestor Owned | 1.2 hrs71 min | 0.7 | 2.5× better |
| 5 | Overton Power District No 5Political Subdivision | 0.2 hrs13 min | 0.2 | 13.2× 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.
Only 5 utilities in Nevada reported, so this ranking covers part of the state rather than all of it. Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.