What is the Munimetric score for Nevada?

Munimetric assigns a state-level average MISI score based on the individual scores of all covered community water systems in Nevada. The state average, band distribution, and market-level rankings are shown on this page. Higher MISI values indicate greater structural stress.

Which water systems in Nevada face the most infrastructure stress?

The state page ranks the highest-stress systems in Nevada by MISI score. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk, not a single compliance event. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. Workflow actions remain reserved for account access.

How does Nevada compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?

Nevada is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. Munimetric tracks nationwide coverage across 9,000+ scored service markets.

Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Nevada water systems?

Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family score. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.

Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for Nevada water systems?

Munimetric summarizes stored PFAS monitoring context where public contaminant-monitoring records are available. Missing PFAS summaries remain missing records, not non-detections, and this public-record layer does not change the MISI score by itself.

What compliance signals are active in Nevada?

Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, population decline, income erosion, data staleness, and parent-government fiscal stress across Nevada water systems.

Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Nevada?

Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions that provide context around system reliability over time.

How many covered systems in Nevada have recent recorded drinking-water violations?

Stored public records show 13 covered systems with recent drinking-water violations, with 43 recorded violations across 44 covered systems in the recent 3 years window.

How does Munimetric summarize PFAS public-record context in Nevada?

Stored contaminant-monitoring summaries are present for 32 covered systems; 27 systems have PFAS detection context in this state summary.

How does Munimetric summarize lead & copper context in Nevada?

Stored lead & copper summaries are present for 36 covered systems; 15 systems have violation or action-level context in this state summary.

What source-water types are represented across covered Nevada systems?

Stored identity records group covered Nevada systems by source-water type: Surface water: 22, Groundwater: 22.

Where can I find official drinking-water records for Nevada?

The Official records drawer lists Public drinking-water profile, Contaminant monitoring records links where currently available for Nevada.

Is this a real-time statewide tap-water condition rating?

No. This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Munimetric summarizes stored public-record context for research and navigation, and this layer does not change MISI.

States / Nevada

Nevada

Name: Nevada Drinking Water Infrastructure Stress Data
Creator: Munimetric
License: https://munimetric.com/terms

Statewide Munimetric profile for Nevada, covering drinking-water market scores, signal activity, infrastructure stress context, and population insights across 44 scored service markets serving approximately 3.1 million people. This state profile highlights what is happening and why it matters using water-system, fiscal, capital, and signal context.

Nevada has an average MISI infrastructure stress score of 22.2/100 in the Watch band as of 2026-05-19. Public records summarize recent drinking-water violations, PFAS monitoring records, lead and copper context, and source-water mix across 44 covered systems. Updated May 2026.

National context

States sized by scored-market count. Color reflects average stress band.

44Markets scored

22.2Headline composite

~3.1MPop. served

187Active signals

Band distribution (MISI)

State headline composite

Component of current headline composite

Infrastructure Stress19.9 / 100

Physical, compliance, and capital-execution pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Socioeconomic Stress1.9 / 100

Affordability, demand-base, and parent-government fiscal pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Observability Stress0.4 / 100

Staleness, disclosure freshness, and reporting-visibility effects reflected in the blended headline composite.

22.2 headline compositeNevada state composite44 markets~3.1M people served

State interpretation guide

How to read Nevada headline composite

Plain-language summary

Nevada currently shows an average MISI headline composite of 22.2 versus a national average of 25.0. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.

Why this page stands out

44 scored systems are included in this state view, with explicit confidence and source-backed context.
State posture is benchmarked against national averages, not evaluated in isolation.
Top system links below connect state-level findings directly to profile-level diagnostics.

What to do next

Review the executive context to understand the state-level pressure pattern.
Open top system profiles to inspect what is actually driving stress at market level.
Use Track to monitor changes in high-stress systems over time.

Priority Nevada paths

Public record layer

Statewide Water Quality Context

Stored public-record context for recent drinking-water violations, contaminant monitoring, and source-water mix across covered systems. This is not a tap-water safety determination and does not change the MISI score.

Systems with recent violations

13 of 44Systems with recent public violation rows.

Source-water mix44 systems

Surface water22
Groundwater22
Purchased water0
Mixed source0
Not stored0

Latest identity snapshot: Dec 31, 2025

Coverage

Violation, enforcement, and compliance-burden counts use the recent 3 years window for dated stored records.
Drinking-water identity snapshots are stored for 36 of 44 included scored systems.
PFAS monitoring summary records are stored for 32 of 44 included systems; missing records are not treated as non-detections.
Lead and copper summary records are stored for 36 of 44 included systems; missing records are not treated as absence of lead/copper context.

Water quality questionsDefinitions and public-record context

How many covered systems in Nevada have recent recorded drinking-water violations?: Stored public records show 13 covered systems with recent drinking-water violations, with 43 recorded violations across 44 covered systems in the recent 3 years window.
How does Munimetric summarize PFAS public-record context in Nevada?: Stored contaminant-monitoring summaries are present for 32 covered systems; 27 systems have PFAS detection context in this state summary.
How does Munimetric summarize lead & copper context in Nevada?: Stored lead & copper summaries are present for 36 covered systems; 15 systems have violation or action-level context in this state summary.
What source-water types are represented across covered Nevada systems?: Stored identity records group covered Nevada systems by source-water type: Surface water: 22, Groundwater: 22.
Where can I find official drinking-water records for Nevada?: The Official records drawer lists Public drinking-water profile, Contaminant monitoring records links where currently available for Nevada.
Is this a real-time statewide tap-water condition rating?: No. This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Munimetric summarizes stored public-record context for research and navigation, and this layer does not change MISI.

Official records

Public drinking-water profileEPA ECHO: Federal drinking-water dashboard and public-record search entry point.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: Federal contaminant-monitoring program reference and public data entry point.

Methodology/source notes

Methodology/source notesDisplayed from stored public drinking-water records and official program references. This layer does not change MISI.
Enforcement historyEPA ECHO / SDWIS: Violation and enforcement counts are aggregated from stored public compliance records across covered systems.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: PFAS context uses stored contaminant-monitoring summaries where available; missing records are not treated as non-detections.
State drinking-water programOfficial link not currently stored for this state program mapping.

Top recent compliance-burden systemsRecent 3 years

System	Population	Source water	Recent violations	Recent enforcement	Public-record flags
Ely Municipal Water DepartmentNV0000038	5,000	Groundwater	8	15	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
Winnemucca City OfNV0000248	8,518	Groundwater	6	14	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
Kingsbury GidNV0000004	3,839	Surface water	6	12	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, lead/copper context
Fernley Public WorksNV0000062	23,064	Groundwater	4	4	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records, lead/copper context
Lander Co Sewer And Water Dist 1 BmNV0000008	3,635	Groundwater	4	4	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records, lead/copper context
Gardnerville Ranchos GidNV0000066	11,300	Groundwater	3	8	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
Elko City OfNV0000272	23,000	Groundwater	2	20	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
West Wendover Water SystemNV0000246	4,535	Groundwater	2	8	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records

This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. For current advisories or health guidance, consult the utility or state drinking-water program.

Executive context

What This Page Shows

44 of the community drinking-water systems in Nevada are currently scored. Analytics below are calculated from this covered subset only. Covered systems serve approximately 3.1M people.

What the Data Suggests

Nevada has 44 scored service markets in the Munimetric coverage set, covering roughly 3.1 million residents in total. At the latest reading, the state-level average lands at 22.2 out of 100, indicating early but meaningful signs of structural stress in aggregate. A relatively small share — roughly 5% — currently sit in elevated-stress bands.

Across state markets, Capex Pressure (10.1 points average) and Operational Stress (9.8) are the leading contributors to headline stress. The relatively close spacing suggests pressure is spread across more than one dimension.

187 active signals are recorded across state markets. The most prevalent is Current Drought Severity, affecting 43 markets.

State-level average stress has been relatively steady between recent observation periods, suggesting the current picture reflects persistent conditions rather than a sudden shift.

This summary is based on structured, source-backed public data and is intended for research and monitoring only. It is not investment advice, a credit opinion, or municipal advisory guidance.

Recent Movement

Latest average MISI is 22.2 as of May 19, 2026. Movement since May 17, 2026 is flat.

Compact summary from 42 stored state observations.

State Family Contribution Summary

Capex Pressure10.1 / 20.0

Operational Stress9.8 / 20.0

Revenue Fragility1.5 / 20.0

Governance Risk0.8 / 20.0

Rate Constraint0.0 / 20.0

Signals

Signal Frequency

Signal	Severity	Markets affected	% of scored
Current Drought Severity	high	43	98%
Climate Hazard Exposure	high	38	86%
PFAS Contamination Risk	high	27	61%
Compliance Escalation	high	20	45%
Infrastructure Capital Gap	high	16	36%
Lead & Copper Rule Risk	high	15	34%
High-AGI Out-Migration	high	7	16%
Parent-Government Fiscal Stress	medium	6	14%
Monitoring / Reporting Failures	medium	6	14%
Housing Market Weakness	medium	5	11%
Utility Data Staleness	high	3	7%
Population Served Decline	medium	1	2%

Markets

Top Markets

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	West Wendover Water System	44.6	Fragile	5K	8
2	Ely Municipal Water Department	41.8	Fragile	5K	7
3	Spring Creek Utilities	35.5	Watch	9K	6
4	Spring Creek Mhp	35.5	Watch	4K	6
5	Nellis Air Force Base	34.0	Watch	19K	5
6	Elko City of	33.4	Watch	23K	6
7	Kingsbury Gid	33.1	Watch	4K	6
8	Big Bend Water District	33.1	Watch	9K	6
9	Virgin Valley Water District	32.4	Watch	26K	5
10	Lovelock Meadows Water District	32.4	Watch	4K	5
11	Incline Village Gid	31.3	Watch	9K	5
12	Town of Minden	30.6	Watch	4K	5
13	Lander Co Sewer and Water Dist 1 Bm	29.5	Watch	4K	6
14	Henderson City of	29.2	Watch	337K	5
15	Carson City Public Works	28.8	Watch	59K	4
16	Boulder City	28.3	Watch	15K	5
17	Moapa Valley Water District	28.0	Watch	9K	5
18	Southern Desert Correctional Ctr Ndoc	28.0	Watch	6K	5
19	Indian Hills Gid	27.0	Watch	6K	5
20	North Las Vegas Utilities	26.9	Watch	377K	5

Comparison

State Comparison

National average: 25.0

Rank	State	Avg Score	Band	Markets	Delta vs State
32	Indiana	22.7	Watch	211	+0.6
33	Wisconsin	22.3	Watch	195	+0.2
34	Nevada	22.2	Watch	44	+0.0
35	New York	22.0	Watch	347	-0.2
36	Alabama	22.0	Watch	289	-0.2

Analytical posture

State Stress Analytics

Score Distribution

Distribution of scored market scores with the state average overlay.

44 markets plotted.

Stress vs Population

Each point is a scored market; tooltip reveals market-level context.

40 markets plotted.

Population View

People served by community water systems in Nevada, colored by stress band.

~3.1M people served by 44 systems in Nevada

Stable

Watch

Fragile

High Stress

Critical

44 scored systems · colored by stress band

Peer Constellation

Select a market to see its nearest peers by score similarity.

Center market:

24 nearest peers by score distance.

Score Trend

Latest

22.2

Trend

+22.2

Observations

Extended layers

Advanced State Context

Priority views, detailed registers, and methodology supporting the analytical core above.

Markets & signals

Priority Views

#	Service Market	Score	Band	Pop.	Signals
1	West Wendover Water System	44.6	Fragile	5K	8
2	Ely Municipal Water Department	41.8	Fragile	5K	7
3	Spring Creek Utilities	35.5	Watch	9K	6
4	Spring Creek Mhp	35.5	Watch	4K	6
5	Nellis Air Force Base	34.0	Watch	19K	5
6	Elko City of	33.4	Watch	23K	6
7	Kingsbury Gid	33.1	Watch	4K	6
8	Big Bend Water District	33.1	Watch	9K	6
9	Virgin Valley Water District	32.4	Watch	26K	5
10	Lovelock Meadows Water District	32.4	Watch	4K	5
11	Incline Village Gid	31.3	Watch	9K	5
12	Town of Minden	30.6	Watch	4K	5
13	Lander Co Sewer and Water Dist 1 Bm	29.5	Watch	4K	6
14	Henderson City of	29.2	Watch	337K	5
15	Carson City Public Works	28.8	Watch	59K	4
16	Boulder City	28.3	Watch	15K	5
17	Moapa Valley Water District	28.0	Watch	9K	5
18	Southern Desert Correctional Ctr Ndoc	28.0	Watch	6K	5
19	Indian Hills Gid	27.0	Watch	6K	5
20	North Las Vegas Utilities	26.9	Watch	377K	5

Detailed records

Registers

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	West Wendover Water System	44.6	Fragile	5K	8
2	Ely Municipal Water Department	41.8	Fragile	5K	7
3	Spring Creek Utilities	35.5	Watch	9K	6
4	Spring Creek Mhp	35.5	Watch	4K	6
5	Nellis Air Force Base	34.0	Watch	19K	5
6	Elko City of	33.4	Watch	23K	6
7	Kingsbury Gid	33.1	Watch	4K	6
8	Big Bend Water District	33.1	Watch	9K	6
9	Virgin Valley Water District	32.4	Watch	26K	5
10	Lovelock Meadows Water District	32.4	Watch	4K	5
11	Incline Village Gid	31.3	Watch	9K	5
12	Town of Minden	30.6	Watch	4K	5
13	Lander Co Sewer and Water Dist 1 Bm	29.5	Watch	4K	6
14	Henderson City of	29.2	Watch	337K	5
15	Carson City Public Works	28.8	Watch	59K	4
16	Boulder City	28.3	Watch	15K	5
17	Moapa Valley Water District	28.0	Watch	9K	5
18	Southern Desert Correctional Ctr Ndoc	28.0	Watch	6K	5
19	Indian Hills Gid	27.0	Watch	6K	5
20	North Las Vegas Utilities	26.9	Watch	377K	5

Munimetric tracks infrastructure stress across 44 community drinking-water systems in Nevada, covering compliance conditions, capital needs, revenue and rate pressure, and governance risk. Use this page to research which systems face the highest structural stress and how Nevada compares nationally.

Which water systems in Nevada face the most infrastructure stress?: The highest-stress systems in Nevada are ranked by MISI score above. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk—not a single compliance event. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.
How does Nevada compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?: Nevada is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. The state comparison table above shows where Nevada ranks nationally and how its average score compares.
Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Nevada water systems?: Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.
What compliance signals are active in Nevada?: Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, data staleness, and financial stress indicators across Nevada systems. The signal frequency table above summarizes which signals are most prevalent statewide.
Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Nevada?: Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions—compliance posture, infrastructure stress, and governance risk—that provide broader context around system reliability.

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Water Infrastructure in Nevada

Munimetric tracks infrastructure stress across 44 community drinking-water systems in Nevada. Each system receives a Munimetric Infrastructure Stress Index (MISI) score from 0 to 100, calculated across five risk families: Operational Stress, Capex Pressure, Revenue Fragility, Rate Constraint, and Governance Risk. Higher scores indicate more structural stress. Scores are source-backed and deterministic, drawing from EPA SDWA compliance records, American Community Survey demographic and economic data, FEMA National Risk Index hazard profiles, and state financial disclosures.

State-level monitoring shows which systems face the highest structural stress, how Nevada compares against other states nationally, and which monitoring signals are most active across the state. Each individual system profile includes compliance history, score family drivers, peer rankings within population-based cohorts where safeguards pass, and public source context. Full provenance cards and source workbench views remain workflow-gated. Munimetric covers community water systems across all 50 states and territories. This is structural risk research—not a water quality rating, advisory feed, or credit rating. Updated May 2026.

The statewide public-record layer adds drinking-water violation categories, PFAS monitoring summaries where stored, lead and copper context, source-water mix, and official record links across covered systems. These records help explain water-system context alongside infrastructure stress without turning Munimetric into a tap-water safety determination.

What is the Munimetric score for Nevada?: Munimetric assigns a state-level average MISI score based on the individual scores of all covered community water systems in Nevada. The state average, band distribution, and market-level rankings are shown on this page. Higher MISI values indicate greater structural stress.
Which water systems in Nevada face the most infrastructure stress?: The state page ranks the highest-stress systems in Nevada by MISI score. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk, not a single compliance event. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. Workflow actions remain reserved for account access.
How does Nevada compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?: Nevada is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. Munimetric tracks nationwide coverage across 9,000+ scored service markets.
Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Nevada water systems?: Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family score. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.
Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for Nevada water systems?: Munimetric summarizes stored PFAS monitoring context where public contaminant-monitoring records are available. Missing PFAS summaries remain missing records, not non-detections, and this public-record layer does not change the MISI score by itself.
What compliance signals are active in Nevada?: Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, population decline, income erosion, data staleness, and parent-government fiscal stress across Nevada water systems.
Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Nevada?: Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions that provide context around system reliability over time.

Nevada

Nevada Infrastructure Track

Funding mix

Big projects

How to read Nevada headline composite

Plain-language summary

Why this page stands out

What to do next

Priority Nevada paths

Statewide Water Quality Context

What This Page Shows

What the Data Suggests

Recent Movement

State Family Contribution Summary

Signal Frequency

Top Markets

State Comparison

State Stress Analytics

Score Distribution

Stress vs Population

Population View

Peer Constellation

Score Trend

Advanced State Context

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Water Infrastructure in Nevada

Nevada

Funding mix

Big projects

How to read Nevada headline composite

Plain-language summary

Why this page stands out

What to do next

Priority Nevada paths

Statewide Water Quality Context

What This Page Shows

What the Data Suggests

Recent Movement

State Family Contribution Summary

Signal Frequency

Top Markets

State Comparison

State Stress Analytics

Score Trend

Advanced State Context

Priority Views

Registers

Keep monitoring this state

Water Infrastructure in Nevada

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