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2022 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 28.6 hours, a total of 9,541 customer-hours (Nevada average 1.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Nevada counties and 191st 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 Esmeralda 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 | August 18, 2022 14:45 | August 18, 2022 15:30 | 45m | 405 | 259 |
| 2 | August 18, 2022 04:00 | August 18, 2022 07:30 | 3h 30m | 404 | 1,117 |
| 3 | October 19, 2022 08:45 | October 19, 2022 09:00 | 15m | 403 | 101 |
| 4 | May 26, 2022 17:45 | May 27, 2022 02:00 | 8h 15m | 401 | 3,308 |
| 5 | April 12, 2022 03:00 | April 12, 2022 04:45 | 1h 45m | 366 | 641 |
| 6 | March 20, 2022 17:15 | March 20, 2022 18:45 | 1h 30m | 364 | 532 |
| 7 | June 16, 2022 05:30 | June 16, 2022 11:30 | 6h | 359 | 2,154 |
| 8 | May 26, 2022 14:15 | May 26, 2022 16:15 | 2h | 301 | 579 |
| 9 | December 2, 2022 22:00 | December 2, 2022 23:45 | 1h 45m | 107 | 187 |
| 10 | December 3, 2022 14:45 | December 3, 2022 15:00 | 15m | 104 | 26 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 10 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 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 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2022 | 4.1 hrs | 1.96 | 32 min | 0.45 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/esmeralda-county