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2023 Elko County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Elko County, NV went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Nevada average 3.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 15 Nevada counties and 681st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Elko County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 10, 2023 15:30 | March 10, 2023 22:00 | 6h 30m | 11,855 | 34K |
| 2 | March 17, 2023 16:45 | March 17, 2023 17:45 | 1h | 11,755 | 8,818 |
| 3 | July 23, 2023 15:30 | July 23, 2023 18:30 | 3h | 3,771 | 11K |
| 4 | June 9, 2023 19:15 | June 9, 2023 22:00 | 2h 45m | 3,541 | 8,281 |
| 5 | June 11, 2023 21:30 | June 12, 2023 02:15 | 4h 45m | 2,793 | 2,114 |
| 6 | September 27, 2023 20:45 | September 27, 2023 22:45 | 2h | 2,790 | 2,092 |
| 7 | February 26, 2023 23:15 | February 27, 2023 03:15 | 4h | 2,782 | 4,235 |
| 8 | March 10, 2023 07:15 | March 10, 2023 11:15 | 4h | 1,638 | 2,220 |
| 9 | July 24, 2023 20:00 | July 24, 2023 20:15 | 15m | 1,400 | 350 |
| 10 | January 5, 2023 20:45 | January 6, 2023 07:15 | 10h 30m | 960 | 2,515 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 34 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 5.5 hrs | 1.81 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 |
| 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 n/a of Nevada's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/nevada/elko-county