Power restored after underground equipment failure cuts electricity to 2,600 NV Energy customers

FOX5 Vegas · last updated August 2, 2026 – 3:40 PM

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — An NV Energy power outage in the area of Durango Drive and Warm Springs Road affected nearly 2,600 customers Saturday evening, according to the utility’s outage map.

The outage was first reported at 6:30 p.m. NV Energy attributed the disruption to an underground equipment failure.

Power has since been fully restored. At its peak, NV Energy’s outage map showed 2,596 customers affected.

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