Cost to run a box fan in Nevada (August 2026 rates)
At 12.72¢ per kilowatt-hour — Nevada's average residential price in August 2026 — running a box fan costs $14.31 a year. That is 30% less than the national average of $20.43. Nevada's residential rate is up 1.4% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $14.11 to $14.31 a year.
- Per hour
- 1.0¢
- Per day of use
- 9.5¢
- Per month
- $1.19
- Per year
- $14.31
Assumption: 75 W, 10 hours a day, 150 days a year — 112 kWh a year. 20-inch box fan on high. Low speed roughly halves the draw. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Nevada compares
Nevada pays 12.72¢/kWh, the cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $6.12 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same box fan costs $14.31 a year in Nevada and $53.08 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $38.77 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 12.72¢ | $1.19 | $14.31 |
| Louisiana | 12.87¢ | $1.21 | $14.48 |
| North Dakota | 13.31¢ | $1.25 | $14.97 |
| Utah | 13.31¢ | $1.25 | $14.97 |
| Idaho | 13.37¢ | $1.25 | $15.04 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a box fan.
What else costs about the same in Nevada
Cutting the number down
- Pointing one out of an upstairs window at night pulls cool air through the whole house for a fraction of what cooling it costs.
- Box fans are cheap to run but not free: continuous summer use adds up to real kilowatt-hours.
Questions
- How much does a box fan cost per month in Nevada?
- About $1.19 a month, assuming 75 W, 10 hours a day, 150 days a year at 12.72¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a box fan use?
- Roughly 112 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.07 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Nevada has the cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $20.43 a year.