Power outages in Utah, by utility
Across 10 Utah utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 0.8 hours in 2025 — that is 3.6× better than the national median. Utah ranks #41 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 0.8 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 15 hrs
- Garkane Energy Coop, Inc
- Best utility
- 0.4 hrs
- City of St George - (UT)
- Utilities reporting
- 10
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Utah utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garkane Energy Coop, IncCooperative | 15 hrs899 min | — | 5.0× worse |
| 2 | PacifiCorpInvestor Owned | 2 hrs118 min | 0.9 | 1.5× better |
| 3 | Heber Light & Power CompanyMunicipal | 1.9 hrs116 min | 2.2 | 1.5× better |
| 4 | Strawberry Electric Serv DistPolitical Subdivision | 1 hrs61 min | — | 2.9× better |
| 5 | Provo City CorpMunicipal | 0.9 hrs53 min | 0.7 | 3.3× better |
| 6 | City of Springville - (UT)Municipal | 0.8 hrs46 min | 0.4 | 3.9× better |
| 7 | Dixie Escalante R E A, IncCooperative | 0.7 hrs44 min | 0.2 | 4.1× better |
| 8 | Lehi City CorporationMunicipal | 0.7 hrs42 min | 0.4 | 4.2× better |
| 9 | City of Logan - (UT)Municipal | 0.5 hrs29 min | 0.4 | 6.2× better |
| 10 | City of St George - (UT)Municipal | 0.4 hrs22 min | — | 8.2× 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.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.