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2020 Churchill County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Churchill County, NV went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 16 Nevada counties and 2373rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Churchill County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 8, 2020 02:30 | June 8, 2020 08:00 | 5h 30m | 2,570 | 2,746 |
| 2 | May 21, 2020 23:00 | May 22, 2020 00:15 | 1h 15m | 2,563 | 1,951 |
| 3 | July 31, 2020 01:15 | July 31, 2020 04:15 | 3h | 1,814 | 2,455 |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 11:30 | July 9, 2020 11:45 | 15m | 1,431 | 358 |
| 5 | August 20, 2020 19:45 | August 20, 2020 23:15 | 3h 30m | 945 | 246 |
| 6 | January 15, 2020 15:15 | January 15, 2020 18:00 | 2h 45m | 817 | 2,173 |
| 7 | January 8, 2020 10:30 | January 9, 2020 00:45 | 14h 15m | 815 | 2,262 |
| 8 | July 19, 2020 22:00 | July 19, 2020 22:45 | 45m | 815 | 611 |
| 9 | January 1, 2020 16:00 | January 1, 2020 16:45 | 45m | 358 | 269 |
| 10 | June 24, 2020 00:30 | June 24, 2020 01:15 | 45m | 358 | 171 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Churchill County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 1.27 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| NV Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fallon - (NV) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 96% of Nevada's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,212 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. Churchill County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Churchill County, NV annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/nevada/churchill-county