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2017 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 42.8 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Nevada counties and 100th 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 Esmeralda 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 | January 6, 2017 03:15 | January 6, 2017 04:30 | 1h 15m | 610 | 740 |
| 2 | February 18, 2017 01:45 | February 18, 2017 05:45 | 4h | 605 | 2,404 |
| 3 | October 18, 2017 22:00 | October 18, 2017 22:15 | 15m | 593 | 148 |
| 4 | August 5, 2017 01:15 | August 5, 2017 04:00 | 2h 45m | 327 | 872 |
| 5 | July 8, 2017 00:30 | July 8, 2017 04:15 | 3h 45m | 325 | 1,204 |
| 6 | April 21, 2017 22:30 | April 22, 2017 11:15 | 12h 45m | 313 | 3,991 |
| 7 | March 30, 2017 19:30 | April 1, 2017 17:30 | 1d 22h | 312 | 4,561 |
| 8 | January 26, 2017 04:30 | January 26, 2017 08:45 | 4h 15m | 80 | 328 |
| 9 | May 2, 2017 05:45 | May 2, 2017 06:00 | 15m | 46 | 12 |
| 10 | September 13, 2017 21:00 | September 13, 2017 21:45 | 45m | 4 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 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 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 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 1.55 | 64 min | 1.17 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/esmeralda-county