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2018 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 875th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Elko County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 25, 2018 20:30 | September 25, 2018 23:45 | 3h 15m | 4,075 | 2,049 |
| 2 | October 2, 2018 17:30 | October 3, 2018 12:15 | 18h 45m | 4,072 | 3,678 |
| 3 | December 25, 2018 03:15 | December 25, 2018 11:45 | 8h 30m | 3,699 | 9,582 |
| 4 | November 3, 2018 00:00 | November 3, 2018 02:00 | 2h | 3,621 | 4,525 |
| 5 | July 3, 2018 17:00 | July 3, 2018 17:15 | 15m | 3,607 | 902 |
| 6 | November 23, 2018 18:15 | November 23, 2018 23:30 | 5h 15m | 2,034 | 628 |
| 7 | April 28, 2018 00:45 | April 28, 2018 01:00 | 15m | 1,317 | 329 |
| 8 | August 26, 2018 14:15 | August 26, 2018 16:30 | 2h 15m | 1,316 | 2,621 |
| 9 | May 2, 2018 21:45 | May 3, 2018 00:00 | 2h 15m | 1,315 | 2,228 |
| 10 | September 8, 2018 02:30 | September 8, 2018 03:30 | 1h | 1,156 | 867 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 31 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Elko County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 1.70 | 2.7 hrs | 1.70 |
| 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 95% of Nevada's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/nevada/elko-county