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2016 Nye County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Nye County, NV went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 8,759 customer-hours (Nevada average 1.3 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 2106th 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 Nye 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 16, 2016 18:15 | December 17, 2016 00:15 | 6h | 612 | 1,800 |
| 2 | December 17, 2016 06:15 | December 17, 2016 12:30 | 6h 15m | 441 | 949 |
| 3 | March 6, 2016 17:00 | March 6, 2016 22:15 | 5h 15m | 431 | 1,094 |
| 4 | March 11, 2016 21:45 | March 12, 2016 02:00 | 4h 15m | 352 | 706 |
| 5 | April 6, 2016 22:15 | April 6, 2016 22:30 | 15m | 346 | 87 |
| 6 | December 17, 2016 13:45 | December 17, 2016 21:15 | 7h 30m | 219 | 1,603 |
| 7 | October 18, 2016 16:00 | October 18, 2016 16:15 | 15m | 168 | 42 |
| 8 | August 17, 2016 00:15 | August 17, 2016 00:30 | 15m | 166 | 42 |
| 9 | December 25, 2016 16:30 | December 25, 2016 16:45 | 15m | 163 | 41 |
| 10 | August 21, 2016 21:30 | August 22, 2016 02:15 | 4h 45m | 119 | 482 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 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 Nye 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 |
| Nevada Power Co | 2016 | 53 min | 0.58 | 44 min | 0.52 |
| Mt Wheeler Power, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,896 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. Nye County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nye 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/nye-county