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2023 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 24.5 hours, a total of 8,181 customer-hours (Nevada average 3.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Nevada counties and 307th 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 Esmeralda 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 | April 30, 2023 12:00 | April 30, 2023 15:00 | 3h | 403 | 1,128 |
| 2 | July 24, 2023 13:00 | July 24, 2023 13:30 | 30m | 402 | 180 |
| 3 | April 16, 2023 16:00 | April 16, 2023 20:15 | 4h 15m | 369 | 1,566 |
| 4 | January 26, 2023 15:45 | January 26, 2023 19:15 | 3h 30m | 368 | 1,012 |
| 5 | February 25, 2023 14:00 | February 27, 2023 00:30 | 1d 10h | 324 | 1,571 |
| 6 | March 18, 2023 13:45 | March 18, 2023 14:00 | 15m | 322 | 81 |
| 7 | February 24, 2023 22:00 | February 24, 2023 22:30 | 30m | 231 | 115 |
| 8 | July 18, 2023 23:45 | July 19, 2023 01:30 | 1h 45m | 120 | 210 |
| 9 | March 15, 2023 15:30 | March 15, 2023 21:00 | 5h 30m | 99 | 255 |
| 10 | August 30, 2023 03:15 | August 30, 2023 12:15 | 9h | 96 | 864 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 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 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 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.51 | 41 min | 0.73 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/esmeralda-county