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2016 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 1,741 customer-hours (Nevada average 1.3 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 15 Nevada counties and 640th 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 Esmeralda 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 | December 24, 2016 19:00 | December 24, 2016 20:15 | 1h 15m | 608 | 333 |
| 2 | March 11, 2016 23:45 | March 12, 2016 02:00 | 2h 15m | 346 | 779 |
| 3 | October 9, 2016 04:15 | October 9, 2016 17:15 | 13h | 51 | 297 |
| 4 | March 10, 2016 15:15 | March 10, 2016 17:00 | 1h 45m | 8 | 4 |
| 5 | July 2, 2016 04:45 | July 2, 2016 08:00 | 3h 15m | 8 | 16 |
| 6 | June 3, 2016 05:15 | June 3, 2016 09:30 | 4h 15m | 7 | 30 |
| 7 | June 6, 2016 14:15 | June 6, 2016 17:30 | 3h 15m | 7 | 23 |
| 8 | August 9, 2016 22:30 | August 9, 2016 22:45 | 15m | 7 | 2 |
| 9 | March 30, 2016 20:15 | March 30, 2016 23:00 | 2h 45m | 6 | 17 |
| 10 | November 27, 2016 17:15 | November 27, 2016 19:30 | 2h 15m | 6 | 12 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 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 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 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.31 | 66 min | 1.00 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/esmeralda-county