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2015 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 3,344 customer-hours (Nevada average 1.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Nevada counties and 265th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Esmeralda County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 14, 2015 00:30 | September 14, 2015 02:30 | 2h | 304 | 605 |
| 2 | November 3, 2015 07:00 | November 3, 2015 16:15 | 9h 15m | 304 | 2,719 |
| 3 | October 22, 2015 20:30 | October 22, 2015 22:00 | 1h 30m | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | July 21, 2015 22:00 | July 21, 2015 22:45 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | August 2, 2015 23:15 | August 3, 2015 01:00 | 1h 45m | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | June 24, 2015 21:30 | June 24, 2015 22:15 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | June 30, 2015 07:15 | June 30, 2015 07:45 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | July 30, 2015 12:45 | July 30, 2015 16:30 | 3h 45m | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | November 26, 2015 06:30 | November 26, 2015 08:30 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | November 29, 2015 19:30 | November 29, 2015 20:00 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Esmeralda County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Pacific Power Co | 2015 | 4.6 hrs | 1.46 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.80 | 46 min | 0.78 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Nevada's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 334 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Esmeralda County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Esmeralda County, NV annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/nevada/esmeralda-county