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2018 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 4,164 customer-hours (Nevada average 1.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 15 Nevada counties and 442nd 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 Esmeralda 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 27, 2018 17:00 | September 27, 2018 18:30 | 1h 30m | 743 | 915 |
| 2 | March 24, 2018 16:00 | March 24, 2018 16:30 | 30m | 719 | 182 |
| 3 | October 3, 2018 05:45 | October 3, 2018 08:45 | 3h | 584 | 1,752 |
| 4 | December 12, 2018 16:00 | December 12, 2018 16:15 | 15m | 346 | 87 |
| 5 | July 19, 2018 22:45 | July 20, 2018 01:00 | 2h 15m | 326 | 729 |
| 6 | July 12, 2018 23:45 | July 13, 2018 03:30 | 3h 45m | 108 | 325 |
| 7 | February 10, 2018 20:30 | February 10, 2018 22:30 | 2h | 17 | 34 |
| 8 | June 8, 2018 22:00 | June 8, 2018 22:45 | 45m | 7 | 5 |
| 9 | November 30, 2018 15:45 | November 30, 2018 21:30 | 5h 45m | 6 | 30 |
| 10 | August 16, 2018 17:00 | August 16, 2018 20:00 | 3h | 4 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 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 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 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.50 | 69 min | 1.00 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/esmeralda-county