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2020 Nye County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nye County, NV went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.2 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 16 Nevada counties and 2432nd 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 Nye 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 | August 13, 2020 15:00 | August 14, 2020 06:45 | 15h 45m | 3,437 | 3,924 |
| 2 | September 21, 2020 15:00 | September 21, 2020 15:45 | 45m | 1,607 | 1,205 |
| 3 | June 15, 2020 20:00 | June 16, 2020 00:30 | 4h 30m | 1,417 | 378 |
| 4 | September 27, 2020 19:30 | September 27, 2020 21:30 | 2h | 1,313 | 663 |
| 5 | July 24, 2020 17:45 | July 25, 2020 15:15 | 21h 30m | 1,168 | 317 |
| 6 | May 29, 2020 15:15 | May 29, 2020 18:30 | 3h 15m | 1,063 | 802 |
| 7 | April 22, 2020 21:00 | April 22, 2020 22:30 | 1h 30m | 931 | 1,397 |
| 8 | April 9, 2020 05:30 | April 9, 2020 10:30 | 5h | 929 | 4,645 |
| 9 | November 13, 2020 15:15 | November 13, 2020 15:45 | 30m | 897 | 229 |
| 10 | October 18, 2020 15:45 | October 18, 2020 16:45 | 1h | 895 | 235 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Nye 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 |
| Nevada Power Co | 2020 | 52 min | 0.52 | 40 min | 0.43 |
| Mt Wheeler Power, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,896 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. Nye County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nye 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/nye-county