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2020 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 16 Nevada counties and 1399th 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 Elko 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 | February 11, 2020 00:45 | February 11, 2020 01:30 | 45m | 11,916 | 8,529 |
| 2 | June 23, 2020 22:00 | June 23, 2020 22:30 | 30m | 894 | 224 |
| 3 | June 16, 2020 20:15 | June 16, 2020 23:00 | 2h 45m | 892 | 451 |
| 4 | March 1, 2020 15:15 | March 1, 2020 20:00 | 4h 45m | 885 | 4,204 |
| 5 | June 6, 2020 01:45 | June 6, 2020 06:45 | 5h | 780 | 876 |
| 6 | May 30, 2020 14:30 | May 30, 2020 17:00 | 2h 30m | 512 | 994 |
| 7 | May 30, 2020 19:00 | May 31, 2020 03:00 | 8h | 469 | 1,859 |
| 8 | May 20, 2020 16:00 | May 20, 2020 22:45 | 6h 45m | 390 | 503 |
| 9 | January 27, 2020 02:15 | January 27, 2020 13:15 | 11h | 378 | 3,780 |
| 10 | April 18, 2020 13:00 | April 18, 2020 15:00 | 2h | 350 | 381 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 96% of Nevada's customers in 2020; 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, 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/elko-county