EIA-861 workbook · 2025 reporting year
What state outage averages can tell you
Annual outage minutes describe a reporting population's past year. They cannot tell you how long the next outage at your home will last. Use them for context, then plan around your own essential loads and local hazards.
These are EIA's published 2025 state totals for utilities using the IEEE reporting standard. The two minute columns show how including major-event days changes the annual picture. Source retrieved October 24, 2026.
Read the measure before the number
- SAIDI · annual minutes
- Average total interruption duration per customer across the reporting year. It combines interruptions across customers; it is not one typical outage.
- SAIFI · annual frequency
- Average number of interruptions per customer across that year. A fractional average does not mean a household had part of an outage.
- Coverage · reporting customers
- Customers represented in this workbook’s IEEE totals, not the state's population or a promise that every utility is included.
EIA collects non-momentary interruptions and permits IEEE or other reporting methods. This page keeps one method visible. The CSV also includes EIA's separate “Any Standard” columns; those are broader totals, not extra customers to add to the IEEE count. See the EIA-861 dataset description and final data files.
Workbook totals: one year, two event views
States and DC appear alphabetically. Both bars use the same linear scale. Major-event exclusion follows the reported dataset; the smaller figure is not a planning guarantee. Scroll sideways on a small screen.
| State | Reporting customers | All events Annual minutes | Without major-event days Annual minutes | All events Interruptions/customer/year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK | 286,815 | 563.5 | 242.7 | 3.024 |
| AL | 444,191 | 270.2 | 127.3 | 1.918 |
| AR | 1,364,584 | 474.2 | 214.9 | 2.192 |
| AZ | 2,924,292 | 72.9 | 64.4 | 0.919 |
| CA | 15,045,322 | 358.8 | 139.5 | 1.295 |
| CO | 2,756,109 | 276.3 | 118.5 | 1.301 |
| CT | 1,385,474 | 214 | 86.5 | 1.004 |
| DC | 347,904 | 50.3 | 33.9 | 0.324 |
| DE | 133,933 | 103.8 | 71.1 | 1.355 |
| FL | 10,051,587 | 72 | 64.8 | 0.831 |
| GA | 4,833,981 | 269.4 | 145.5 | 1.842 |
| HI | 35,470 | 335.4 | 202 | 3.45 |
| IA | 915,285 | 183.2 | 79.9 | 1.141 |
| ID | 882,930 | 306.4 | 143.4 | 1.158 |
| IL | 5,775,618 | 145.4 | 61.6 | 0.868 |
| IN | 2,959,607 | 348.9 | 122.8 | 1.38 |
| KS | 1,267,210 | 193.1 | 96.4 | 1.308 |
| KY | 2,274,187 | 396.3 | 171.1 | 1.862 |
| LA | 1,688,572 | 268.2 | 226.5 | 2.035 |
| MA | 3,029,594 | 122.7 | 75.7 | 0.903 |
| MD | 2,487,001 | 183.9 | 80 | 0.958 |
| ME | 864,575 | 363.4 | 191.7 | 2.24 |
| MI | 4,826,558 | 608.6 | 161 | 1.418 |
| MN | 2,546,148 | 182 | 93.2 | 1.176 |
| MO | 1,335,817 | 378.9 | 113.7 | 1.594 |
| MS | 1,110,277 | 524.4 | 318.6 | 2.502 |
| MT | 510,555 | 286.4 | 135.4 | 1.335 |
| NC | 5,201,957 | 195.8 | 145.3 | 1.385 |
| ND | 412,043 | 212.1 | 75.2 | 1.186 |
| NE | 757,833 | 542.8 | 86.1 | 1.322 |
| NH | 683,695 | 150.7 | 86.1 | 1.12 |
| NJ | 4,301,741 | 155.1 | 95.6 | 1.12 |
| NM | 960,611 | 161.9 | 143 | 1.201 |
| NV | 1,565,800 | 127.8 | 100.7 | 1.125 |
| NY | 1,724,765 | 238.8 | 137.9 | 1.388 |
| OH | 5,601,440 | 205.5 | 130.1 | 1.275 |
| OK | 1,016,793 | 297.6 | 127.4 | 1.721 |
| OR | 1,246,335 | 259.4 | 97.9 | 0.909 |
| PA | 5,335,766 | 413 | 136.3 | 1.424 |
| RI | 514,651 | 183 | 60.1 | 0.96 |
| SC | 2,905,071 | 153 | 103.4 | 1.256 |
| SD | 381,659 | 284.2 | 63.8 | 1.335 |
| TN | 2,580,328 | 228.7 | 147.3 | 1.537 |
| TX | 8,731,436 | 222.2 | 158.4 | 1.784 |
| UT | 193,379 | 112.6 | 80 | 0.447 |
| VA | 1,087,610 | 875.6 | 283.7 | 2.584 |
| VT | 40,952 | 251.3 | 150.6 | 2.06 |
| WA | 3,313,967 | 393.4 | 147.4 | 1.482 |
| WI | 2,414,692 | 264.1 | 87.4 | 0.987 |
| WV | 1,005,288 | 1,013.2 | 498.1 | 3.082 |
| WY | 113,632 | 261.7 | 137.3 | 1.729 |
A useful reading—and a misleading one
Arizona's IEEE total is 72.9 annual minutes per customer with all events and 64.4 without major-event days, across 2,924,292 reporting customers. That describes a state-level annual burden in this dataset. It does not mean every Arizona household lost power for that duration, or that a battery sized for that many minutes is enough.
A household on one circuit can have a very different experience from the state average. Storm exposure, utility service territory, repeated local faults and the consequences of losing a particular device all matter to your plan. During an outage, use your utility's current incident updates for restoration information.
Source, method and reproducibility
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2025 final EIA-861 ZIP,
Reliability_2025.xlsx,State Totalsworksheet. Retrieved 2026-10-24. - We transcribed the workbook’s totals directly. We did not combine utility methods, recompute customer weights, fill missing values, calculate a state ranking or include territory rows.
- The download retains separate IEEE and Any Standard columns, event definitions, frequency and duration fields. Blank cells remain missing. Customer counts are reporting coverage, not a coverage percentage.
- Future EIA revisions can change the figures. This snapshot stays labeled 2025; it is not live outage tracking. Review annually when EIA releases a new final file.
Reproduce this snapshot
Download the linked EIA ZIP, extract only the named workbook, then run python3 scripts/extract-eia-reliability.py /path/to/Reliability_2025.xlsx from the HR Hub app source. The standard-library script checks the year, headers and all
51 state/DC rows. It produces the page's JSON and downloadable CSV.
Workbook SHA-256: 44384751553f4d6b17723331a8e68b03c166ad2e7a81b97659ae08d79fe91e45