Misfits Flat: a provisional High Speed NV (BEAD) project in Lyon County

The file names Misfits Flat and files it under Lyon County; Dayton is the nearest town page here. Closest on this site: the Dayton page. Below is what the record holds for Misfits Flat, in the state's own terms, and what a household there can do while the plan stays a plan.

What is filed for the Misfits Flat project?

OSIT's data names NV Bell Telephone as the subgrantee for Misfits Flat. Its 139 locations are all counted as fiber to the premises, and the anticipated speed in the file is up to 5000/5000 Mbps for each one. The money side for Misfits Flat reads about 269 thousand dollars of BEAD support and about 647 thousand dollars from the subgrantee as match, about 917 thousand dollars in all.

The schedule in the file for Misfits Flat is an estimate: a subaward on September 3, 2025, performance starting October 1, 2025 and ending September 4, 2029, a span of about 3.9 years.

OSIT flags Misfits Flat as a priority broadband project.

How settled is the plan for Misfits Flat?

The state's data calls the status of Misfits Flat provisional, and NTIA's overview says its figures are subject to change pending NTIA curing and NIST final review and award. Nevada's first approval, on January 16, 2025, was rescinded on June 6, 2025, and the revised plan was approved on January 8, 2026, so the list that holds Misfits Flat has moved before.

The Governor's statement, which covers Misfits Flat along with every other project, said deployment was expected to begin in mid-2026 and construction would occur over the next four years. Dates in the file, like the September 2029 estimate for Misfits Flat, are planning numbers and not a schedule a household can plan around.

What does the fiber work look like in the file for Misfits Flat?

In the file, every location in Misfits Flat is a fiber location. The route for Misfits Flat is estimated at 2 miles aerial and 7 miles buried, with 3 estimated jobs; aerial means strung on poles and buried means in the ground.

The anticipated speed of up to 5000/5000 Mbps per location in Misfits Flat is the state's planning figure for the technology, not a measurement and not an offer to a household.

Where does Misfits Flat sit among the 9 projects in Lyon County?

OSIT's file lists 9 projects in Lyon County with 512 locations in all, Misfits Flat among them. At 139 locations, Misfits Flat is the second largest, about 27 percent of the county's filed locations.

The other fiber to the premises projects the file lists in Lyon County besides Misfits Flat: Fernley (238); Stockton Flat Well (15). No other project in Lyon County lists NV Bell Telephone.

Across the six counties' file, 34 projects including Misfits Flat use fiber to the premises. Dividing BEAD support by locations gives about 1,900 dollars per location for Misfits Flat, against about 370 dollars at the low end and about 25,200 dollars at the high end for that technology, which puts it number 2 of 34 on that measure. That Misfits Flat ratio is arithmetic on the file's numbers, not a statement about cost or value.

What can a household near Misfits Flat do today?

Nothing in the Misfits Flat file changes today's choices in Lyon County, so a household can keep the service it has and look at others. The FCC's National Broadband Map at broadbandmap.fcc.gov shows what providers report at an address, and the state's Misfits Flat listing is a separate record. Neither one is a promise.

High Desert Internet, a fixed wireless provider open since August 2002, is a separate option for a home near Misfits Flat in Lyon County: its three published plans are on the cards below, and whether a tower can see a roof is decided address by address.

Send the street address through the address check, or call 775-575-9593 between 9 and 5; the Misfits Flat listing changes nothing about that check. Someone reviews the path from a tower to your roof and phones you, and a technician confirms at the house if it looks clear; no answer about an address near Misfits Flat is given before that look.