Power outages by state, ranked

41 states have enough utilities reporting to the federal government to rank honestly. Each figure is the median utility in that state, so one badly hit rural co-op cannot define a whole state. The US median is 3 hours without power per customer per year.

#	State	Median outage time	Worst utility	Utilities
1	Michigan	9.9 hrs	73.4 hrs	20
2	Montana	7.5 hrs	22.2 hrs	6
3	Alaska	7.3 hrs	18.9 hrs	5
4	Virginia	6.4 hrs	35.5 hrs	13
5	Kentucky	6.3 hrs	39.9 hrs	31
6	Arkansas	5.4 hrs	12.3 hrs	15
7	Indiana	5.3 hrs	22.9 hrs	30
8	Washington	5.2 hrs	17.3 hrs	20
9	Oklahoma	4.7 hrs	38.7 hrs	20
10	Louisiana	4.3 hrs	8.5 hrs	8
11	Mississippi	4.1 hrs	45.6 hrs	13
12	Alabama	3.9 hrs	20.1 hrs	13
13	Georgia	3.9 hrs	29.8 hrs	31
14	Oregon	3.8 hrs	12.3 hrs	12
15	Texas	3.4 hrs	22.2 hrs	51
16	New Mexico	3.3 hrs	9.4 hrs	11
17	Pennsylvania	3.3 hrs	10.8 hrs	5
18	Wyoming	3.3 hrs	9.5 hrs	7
19	Nebraska	3.3 hrs	51.4 hrs	9
20	Tennessee	3.1 hrs	208.9 hrs	41
21	Missouri	3 hrs	48.5 hrs	27
22	Maryland	2.9 hrs	6.7 hrs	7
23	Kansas	2.9 hrs	9.7 hrs	13
24	Idaho	2.9 hrs	16.2 hrs	9
25	Ohio	2.8 hrs	16.6 hrs	30
26	Illinois	2.7 hrs	36.9 hrs	16
27	Colorado	2.5 hrs	21.5 hrs	21
28	South Dakota	2.4 hrs	41.5 hrs	13
29	Florida	2.3 hrs	8 hrs	20
30	South Carolina	2.3 hrs	8.5 hrs	23
31	Connecticut	2.1 hrs	3.6 hrs	5
32	North Carolina	1.9 hrs	12.9 hrs	36
33	North Dakota	1.9 hrs	9.6 hrs	10
34	California	1.7 hrs	10.2 hrs	22
35	Minnesota	1.7 hrs	9.3 hrs	37
36	Iowa	1.6 hrs	3.4 hrs	13
37	Nevada	1.6 hrs	5.8 hrs	5
38	Arizona	1.5 hrs	4.4 hrs	11
39	Massachusetts	1.2 hrs	13.8 hrs	14
40	Wisconsin	0.9 hrs	10.5 hrs	25
41	Utah	0.8 hrs	15 hrs	10

Why some states are missing

10 states and territories had fewer than 5 utilities file reliability data for 2025. A ranking of three utilities is not a ranking, so those states get no page rather than a misleading one. West Virginia is the clearest loss: its four reporting utilities average the worst outage time in the country, but four is not enough to rank a state.