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2019 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 16 Nevada counties and 912th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Elko County, 2019
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 21, 2019 14:00 | January 21, 2019 19:45 | 5h 45m | 4,487 | 4,166 |
| 2 | February 5, 2019 00:00 | February 5, 2019 12:15 | 12h 15m | 3,680 | 8,930 |
| 3 | September 30, 2019 21:45 | September 30, 2019 22:45 | 1h | 3,046 | 3,045 |
| 4 | February 8, 2019 09:00 | February 8, 2019 11:30 | 2h 30m | 2,500 | 3,673 |
| 5 | March 6, 2019 18:45 | March 6, 2019 19:15 | 30m | 2,149 | 538 |
| 6 | March 5, 2019 06:15 | March 5, 2019 10:45 | 4h 30m | 1,344 | 1,687 |
| 7 | July 21, 2019 13:15 | July 22, 2019 00:45 | 11h 30m | 1,034 | 2,296 |
| 8 | May 6, 2019 21:30 | May 7, 2019 00:45 | 3h 15m | 960 | 479 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 00:15 | November 27, 2019 02:45 | 2h 30m | 884 | 336 |
| 10 | April 15, 2019 23:00 | April 15, 2019 23:15 | 15m | 882 | 221 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 42 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/nevada/elko-county