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2016 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Nevada counties and 208th 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 Elko 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 | June 13, 2016 03:15 | June 13, 2016 11:15 | 8h | 5,603 | 29K |
| 2 | March 6, 2016 17:15 | March 6, 2016 22:30 | 5h 15m | 5,362 | 11K |
| 3 | May 13, 2016 20:30 | May 14, 2016 04:15 | 7h 45m | 5,349 | 5,429 |
| 4 | March 28, 2016 15:30 | March 28, 2016 22:45 | 7h 15m | 4,256 | 3,814 |
| 5 | March 26, 2016 04:15 | March 26, 2016 05:15 | 1h | 4,243 | 3,211 |
| 6 | March 6, 2016 12:45 | March 6, 2016 14:45 | 2h | 4,200 | 8,257 |
| 7 | June 7, 2016 22:00 | June 8, 2016 00:15 | 2h 15m | 2,879 | 3,600 |
| 8 | September 24, 2016 20:30 | September 24, 2016 21:30 | 1h | 2,876 | 720 |
| 9 | September 6, 2016 01:00 | September 6, 2016 03:00 | 2h | 1,934 | 1,870 |
| 10 | July 9, 2016 17:30 | July 9, 2016 19:15 | 1h 45m | 1,184 | 1,501 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 66 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Elko 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 |
| Mt Wheeler Power, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raft Rural Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wells Rural Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,290 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. Elko County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elko 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/elko-county