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2022 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Nevada average 1.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 961st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Elko County, 2022
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 17, 2022 18:45 | February 17, 2022 19:00 | 15m | 7,152 | 1,788 |
| 2 | May 26, 2022 23:30 | May 27, 2022 06:15 | 6h 45m | 5,153 | 14K |
| 3 | August 30, 2022 21:00 | August 30, 2022 21:30 | 30m | 3,182 | 797 |
| 4 | March 13, 2022 10:00 | March 13, 2022 12:30 | 2h 30m | 2,770 | 6,915 |
| 5 | April 25, 2022 15:00 | April 25, 2022 22:00 | 7h | 1,591 | 422 |
| 6 | March 18, 2022 20:30 | March 18, 2022 20:45 | 15m | 1,050 | 263 |
| 7 | July 13, 2022 00:15 | July 13, 2022 03:15 | 3h | 1,043 | 1,876 |
| 8 | August 31, 2022 23:15 | September 1, 2022 01:45 | 2h 30m | 874 | 2,108 |
| 9 | May 15, 2022 22:30 | May 16, 2022 09:30 | 11h | 819 | 5,138 |
| 10 | September 6, 2022 00:00 | September 6, 2022 02:00 | 2h | 648 | 663 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 33 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 8.9 hrs | 2.02 | 2.5 hrs | 1.35 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/nevada/elko-county