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2016 Churchill County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Churchill County, NV went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 867th 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 Churchill County, 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 | May 25, 2016 00:30 | May 25, 2016 02:30 | 2h | 4,716 | 5,254 |
| 2 | May 26, 2016 07:15 | May 26, 2016 13:15 | 6h | 4,713 | 4,184 |
| 3 | October 16, 2016 19:30 | October 16, 2016 21:15 | 1h 45m | 4,637 | 4,635 |
| 4 | October 30, 2016 22:45 | October 31, 2016 15:15 | 16h 30m | 2,515 | 3,056 |
| 5 | January 22, 2016 02:15 | January 22, 2016 09:45 | 7h 30m | 2,450 | 5,440 |
| 6 | May 11, 2016 22:45 | May 12, 2016 01:30 | 2h 45m | 1,663 | 835 |
| 7 | September 21, 2016 18:45 | September 21, 2016 21:30 | 2h 45m | 1,661 | 2,757 |
| 8 | March 25, 2016 02:45 | March 25, 2016 07:45 | 5h | 886 | 2,010 |
| 9 | April 22, 2016 20:30 | April 23, 2016 00:30 | 4h | 809 | 1,479 |
| 10 | May 25, 2016 16:00 | May 25, 2016 16:15 | 15m | 801 | 200 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Churchill County 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 |
| NV Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fallon - (NV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,212 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. Churchill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Churchill County, 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/churchill-county