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2018 Nye County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Nye County, NV went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.7 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 2320th 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 Nye 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 | December 12, 2018 15:00 | December 12, 2018 17:30 | 2h 30m | 1,365 | 357 |
| 2 | December 4, 2018 18:15 | December 4, 2018 18:45 | 30m | 926 | 463 |
| 3 | November 13, 2018 20:30 | November 13, 2018 20:45 | 15m | 919 | 230 |
| 4 | April 9, 2018 19:00 | April 9, 2018 20:30 | 1h 30m | 911 | 1,367 |
| 5 | March 11, 2018 13:00 | March 11, 2018 16:30 | 3h 30m | 910 | 2,179 |
| 6 | April 7, 2018 18:00 | April 7, 2018 20:00 | 2h | 910 | 1,593 |
| 7 | August 2, 2018 03:00 | August 2, 2018 05:45 | 2h 45m | 903 | 2,258 |
| 8 | March 22, 2018 23:30 | March 23, 2018 07:45 | 8h 15m | 825 | 5,124 |
| 9 | August 12, 2018 14:30 | August 12, 2018 19:30 | 5h | 456 | 2,280 |
| 10 | August 17, 2018 04:30 | August 17, 2018 09:30 | 5h | 456 | 2,280 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Nevada Power Co | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.69 | 46 min | 0.49 |
| 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 95% of Nevada's customers in 2018; 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, 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/nye-county