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2019 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 56.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 16 Nevada counties and 50th 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 Esmeralda 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 | February 16, 2019 17:15 | February 16, 2019 20:15 | 3h | 1,703 | 4,423 |
| 2 | June 25, 2019 04:15 | June 25, 2019 06:45 | 2h 30m | 351 | 876 |
| 3 | November 21, 2019 15:00 | November 22, 2019 08:00 | 17h | 351 | 5,937 |
| 4 | October 4, 2019 07:45 | October 4, 2019 11:15 | 3h 30m | 347 | 1,215 |
| 5 | October 8, 2019 05:45 | October 8, 2019 14:15 | 8h 30m | 345 | 2,903 |
| 6 | April 11, 2019 05:00 | April 11, 2019 07:00 | 2h | 202 | 404 |
| 7 | May 16, 2019 19:15 | May 17, 2019 05:00 | 9h 45m | 122 | 1,182 |
| 8 | April 25, 2019 04:45 | April 25, 2019 09:45 | 5h | 121 | 590 |
| 9 | June 16, 2019 20:30 | June 17, 2019 03:00 | 6h 30m | 41 | 137 |
| 10 | July 31, 2019 15:45 | July 31, 2019 23:30 | 7h 45m | 28 | 217 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 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 Esmeralda 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 |
| 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 2019; 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, 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/esmeralda-county