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2017 Nye County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Nye County, NV went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 2026th 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 Nye 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 23, 2017 06:45 | January 23, 2017 13:00 | 6h 15m | 930 | 4,960 |
| 2 | April 10, 2017 08:45 | April 10, 2017 15:00 | 6h 15m | 915 | 1,961 |
| 3 | March 30, 2017 18:45 | March 31, 2017 03:30 | 8h 45m | 469 | 2,304 |
| 4 | January 6, 2017 02:45 | January 6, 2017 03:30 | 45m | 443 | 234 |
| 5 | February 7, 2017 23:15 | February 8, 2017 12:30 | 13h 15m | 442 | 4,563 |
| 6 | March 22, 2017 23:30 | March 23, 2017 06:45 | 7h 15m | 436 | 2,255 |
| 7 | March 22, 2017 03:15 | March 22, 2017 20:00 | 16h 45m | 435 | 4,802 |
| 8 | February 18, 2017 01:30 | February 18, 2017 02:00 | 30m | 369 | 111 |
| 9 | February 25, 2017 01:00 | February 25, 2017 02:15 | 1h 15m | 223 | 278 |
| 10 | October 19, 2017 05:15 | October 19, 2017 17:30 | 12h 15m | 219 | 2,683 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 14 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 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 |
| Nevada Power Co | 2017 | 62 min | 0.50 | 40 min | 0.43 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/nye-county