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2017 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 18.5 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 15 Nevada counties and 301st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Elko County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 7, 2017 15:45 | October 7, 2017 20:30 | 4h 45m | 11,791 | 16K |
| 2 | January 3, 2017 21:30 | January 4, 2017 01:30 | 4h | 11,614 | 20K |
| 3 | February 7, 2017 14:45 | February 8, 2017 11:15 | 20h 30m | 8,701 | 15K |
| 4 | January 4, 2017 17:30 | January 4, 2017 21:45 | 4h 15m | 6,133 | 8,208 |
| 5 | March 20, 2017 16:15 | March 20, 2017 17:45 | 1h 30m | 5,214 | 5,241 |
| 6 | April 18, 2017 15:15 | April 18, 2017 17:30 | 2h 15m | 4,953 | 1,498 |
| 7 | January 11, 2017 14:00 | January 12, 2017 00:45 | 10h 45m | 4,901 | 9,521 |
| 8 | May 16, 2017 14:30 | May 16, 2017 16:45 | 2h 15m | 1,729 | 445 |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 03:15 | March 2, 2017 05:30 | 2h 15m | 1,588 | 2,648 |
| 10 | August 6, 2017 20:45 | August 7, 2017 00:30 | 3h 45m | 1,371 | 2,407 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 54 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 4.3 hrs | 1.96 | 3.6 hrs | 1.82 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/nevada/elko-county