City of Boulder City, NV
How often City of Boulder City goes out
Nevada's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 1 outages from City of Boulder City in the most recent year, 5.8 hours total. That is 170% more outage time than the Nevada state average of 2.1 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Boulder City looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 6.1 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 8,327 customers here, City of Boulder City customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
City of Boulder City filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Nevada territory, serving 8,327 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Nevada as a whole, across every utility that filed: Nevada's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.