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2021 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 42.3 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Nevada counties and 210th 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 Esmeralda 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 | May 16, 2021 00:15 | May 16, 2021 04:15 | 4h | 396 | 1,117 |
| 2 | March 1, 2021 05:00 | March 1, 2021 05:15 | 15m | 395 | 99 |
| 3 | August 11, 2021 02:45 | August 11, 2021 18:00 | 15h 15m | 395 | 5,925 |
| 4 | August 30, 2021 08:15 | August 30, 2021 10:30 | 2h 15m | 395 | 889 |
| 5 | August 30, 2021 12:45 | August 30, 2021 13:00 | 15m | 395 | 99 |
| 6 | December 17, 2021 17:00 | December 17, 2021 22:45 | 5h 45m | 364 | 2,093 |
| 7 | March 15, 2021 22:45 | March 16, 2021 08:30 | 9h 45m | 359 | 3,454 |
| 8 | January 10, 2021 22:45 | January 10, 2021 23:00 | 15m | 220 | 55 |
| 9 | June 17, 2021 18:15 | June 17, 2021 19:00 | 45m | 220 | 165 |
| 10 | April 23, 2021 00:45 | April 23, 2021 01:30 | 45m | 18 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 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 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 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2021 | 87 min | 0.77 | 34 min | 0.47 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/esmeralda-county