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2025 Esmeralda County, NV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Esmeralda County, NV went without power for an average of 25.3 hours, a total of 8,449 customer-hours (Nevada average 3.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Nevada counties and 240th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NV, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nevada customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Esmeralda County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 2, 2025 18:00 | November 2, 2025 19:00 | 1h | 452 | 339 |
| 2 | March 12, 2025 22:00 | March 13, 2025 02:00 | 4h | 401 | 1,604 |
| 3 | March 31, 2025 02:15 | March 31, 2025 08:00 | 5h 45m | 399 | 2,294 |
| 4 | August 24, 2025 02:15 | August 24, 2025 06:45 | 4h 30m | 399 | 1,697 |
| 5 | September 25, 2025 02:00 | September 25, 2025 20:30 | 18h 30m | 399 | 165 |
| 6 | September 6, 2025 14:15 | September 6, 2025 14:45 | 30m | 398 | 101 |
| 7 | September 7, 2025 04:15 | September 7, 2025 07:00 | 2h 45m | 398 | 995 |
| 8 | August 23, 2025 21:15 | August 23, 2025 21:45 | 30m | 316 | 158 |
| 9 | August 1, 2025 18:00 | August 1, 2025 18:15 | 15m | 119 | 30 |
| 10 | October 3, 2025 14:30 | October 3, 2025 16:45 | 2h 15m | 106 | 239 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 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 2025, 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 | 2024 | 6.7 hrs | 2.34 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2024 | 85 min | 1.07 | 44 min | 0.69 |
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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/nevada/esmeralda-county