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2016 Carson City, NV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Carson City, NV went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.3 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 1120th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carson City, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 31, 2016 21:00 | September 1, 2016 04:00 | 7h | 11,297 | 29K |
| 2 | August 7, 2016 16:30 | August 7, 2016 19:15 | 2h 45m | 4,523 | 7,850 |
| 3 | September 1, 2016 04:45 | September 1, 2016 05:00 | 15m | 3,989 | 997 |
| 4 | December 27, 2016 09:00 | December 27, 2016 16:45 | 7h 45m | 2,133 | 2,727 |
| 5 | June 6, 2016 03:45 | June 6, 2016 05:00 | 1h 15m | 2,116 | 2,427 |
| 6 | October 14, 2016 15:00 | October 15, 2016 00:15 | 9h 15m | 1,903 | 1,782 |
| 7 | January 29, 2016 21:15 | January 30, 2016 05:30 | 8h 15m | 1,808 | 1,660 |
| 8 | November 19, 2016 19:15 | November 20, 2016 00:30 | 5h 15m | 1,721 | 1,076 |
| 9 | January 21, 2016 00:45 | January 21, 2016 05:15 | 4h 30m | 1,108 | 1,789 |
| 10 | October 14, 2016 02:45 | October 14, 2016 09:15 | 6h 30m | 963 | 1,046 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 44 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Carson City reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.44 | 2.5 hrs | 1.30 |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,607 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. Carson City has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carson City, NV annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/nevada/carson-city