Average electricity interruption duration per customer

U.S. electricity customers experienced an average of 11 hours of electricity interruptions in 2024, or nearly twice as many as the annual average experienced in the decade before, according to our Electric Power Annual 2024 report.

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U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2024). Hurricanes in 2024 led to the most hours without power in the United States in 10 years. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66744. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPVK

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U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Hurricanes in 2024 led to the most hours without power in the United States in 10 years." 2024, https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66744. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPVK.

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U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Hurricanes in 2024 led to the most hours without power in the United States in 10 years." 2024. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66744. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPVK.

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@misc{eia2024averagembjpvk, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {Hurricanes in 2024 led to the most hours without power in the United States in 10 years}, year = {2024}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPVK}, note = {Original source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66744. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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Record last modified 15 September 2026. Value type: actual. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPVK.