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2020 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 24.8 hours, a total of 8,298 customer-hours (Nevada average 1.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 16 Nevada counties and 348th 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 Esmeralda 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 | October 10, 2020 18:45 | October 10, 2020 19:30 | 45m | 360 | 270 |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 02:30 | October 29, 2020 03:15 | 45m | 358 | 206 |
| 3 | February 3, 2020 03:00 | February 3, 2020 13:45 | 10h 45m | 345 | 3,677 |
| 4 | October 11, 2020 06:45 | October 11, 2020 07:15 | 30m | 323 | 161 |
| 5 | July 23, 2020 19:00 | July 23, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 316 | 79 |
| 6 | February 4, 2020 01:00 | February 4, 2020 01:15 | 15m | 304 | 76 |
| 7 | April 8, 2020 12:00 | April 8, 2020 12:15 | 15m | 220 | 55 |
| 8 | June 5, 2020 13:45 | June 5, 2020 17:00 | 3h 15m | 220 | 715 |
| 9 | June 25, 2020 23:15 | June 25, 2020 23:30 | 15m | 220 | 55 |
| 10 | July 6, 2020 16:00 | July 6, 2020 16:15 | 15m | 220 | 55 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2020 | 68 min | 0.89 | 32 min | 0.57 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/esmeralda-county