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2021 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 1963rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Elko County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 10, 2021 08:00 | November 10, 2021 12:00 | 4h | 2,590 | 2,082 |
| 2 | March 11, 2021 12:15 | March 11, 2021 14:15 | 2h | 1,692 | 3,384 |
| 3 | September 28, 2021 20:30 | September 29, 2021 01:45 | 5h 15m | 615 | 726 |
| 4 | August 23, 2021 16:30 | August 23, 2021 20:00 | 3h 30m | 565 | 473 |
| 5 | March 20, 2021 09:15 | March 20, 2021 12:45 | 3h 30m | 315 | 632 |
| 6 | July 13, 2021 16:00 | July 13, 2021 21:30 | 5h 30m | 286 | 773 |
| 7 | May 13, 2021 21:45 | May 13, 2021 23:00 | 1h 15m | 283 | 251 |
| 8 | March 20, 2021 05:00 | March 20, 2021 07:30 | 2h 30m | 211 | 476 |
| 9 | June 23, 2021 12:00 | June 23, 2021 20:00 | 8h | 176 | 1,160 |
| 10 | June 5, 2021 02:30 | June 5, 2021 08:15 | 5h 45m | 175 | 436 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 21 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Elko County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.28 | 2.0 hrs | 1.03 |
| 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 97% of Nevada's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/nevada/elko-county