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US Power Outage Reports

How much power does the average American lose each year — and is it getting worse? These annual reports are built from a decade of DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I outage data.

Average hours without power per US customer, by year

SAIDI — total outage time divided across all customers (includes major storm days).

2.9h20153.9h20167.4h20175.6h20184.7h20198.7h20208.9h20218.3h20227.1h202312.6h20245.9h2025

2024 was the worst year of the decade (12.6 hrs per customer). In 2025 the average US customer lost power for 5.9 hours2.1× the 2015 figure.

Annual reports