Emergency Electrician in Las Vegas — 24/7

It's 11pm and half the house just went dark. Or there's a burning smell near the panel and you can't find where it's coming from. You don't need a website right now — you need a person. Call (702) 625-9814. We answer around the clock.

What counts as an electrical emergency

People apologize for calling at night. Don't. These are the calls that should not wait for morning:

• Burning smell you can't locate — especially a fish-like or acrid plastic odor near outlets or the panel. That's insulation cooking.
• Sparks or arcing from an outlet, switch, or the panel.
• A breaker that trips the moment you reset it. Something on that circuit is faulted. Forcing it is how wiring fires start.
• Partial power — some rooms dead, lights bright in one room and dim in another. Often a lost leg at the service; it can cook appliances while it lasts.
• Water into electrical — a roof leak over the panel, a flooded room with live outlets.
• Storm damage — a downed service line, a meter pulled loose from the wall. Stay far away from anything on the ground and call.
• No power with the neighborhood lit up. If NV Energy's outage map shows nothing in your area, the failure is on your side of the meter.

A breaker that keeps tripping isn't broken. It's the one thing standing between a fault and a fire.

What to do before we arrive

• If there's smoke or fire: everyone out, 911 first. Nothing on this page outranks that.
• If an outlet or appliance is sparking: switch off that breaker if the panel is dry and safe to reach. Don't touch the outlet itself.
• If the panel is hot or buzzing: don't open it. Clear the area and call.
• Unplug sensitive electronics if you're seeing flickering or half-power — voltage swings kill TVs and computers.
• Have your address and gate code ready when you call. It sounds obvious; at midnight with the power out, it isn't.

What happens when you call

• A person answers. Describe what you're seeing, smelling, or hearing.
• Honest triage. If it's genuinely dangerous, we dispatch. If it can safely wait for morning — and daytime rates — we'll tell you that too.
• A real arrival window, not "sometime tonight."
• Upfront pricing before work begins. Emergency work has an after-hours premium; you'll know it before we start, not on the invoice.
• The fix, documented. What failed, what we did, and whether any follow-up work should happen in daylight.

The problems behind most midnight calls

After enough 2am dispatches, patterns emerge. The usual suspects in Las Vegas homes:

• Failed breakers and overloaded circuits — summer AC load finds the weak link in an aging panel.
• Backstabbed outlets — builder-grade connections that loosen with years of heat cycling, then arc.
• Aging panels — if your panel is a known problem brand or simply past its era, the emergency is sometimes the panel announcing itself. Our panel upgrade page covers what replacement involves.
• DIY wiring from a previous owner — junctions buried in walls, undersized wire, missing grounds.
• Monsoon-season water intrusion — July and August storms find every gap in an exterior panel.

Why Las Vegas calls A-Team at 2am

• Licensed and insured Nevada electrical contractor — NSCB #93397 — on every call, including the midnight ones.
• 24/7 means answered, not an answering service that promises a callback.
• Upfront pricing stated before work starts.
• Repairs done to code, with permits pulled when the fix requires one.
• Straight talk: if it can wait for daytime rates, we say so on the phone.

Areas we serve

Emergency electrical service across the valley, around the clock: Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Spring Valley, Enterprise, Paradise, Boulder City, and surrounding communities. Full service area here.

Frequently asked questions