Power outage history
Nye County Nevada
1.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
11th most of 12 in Nevada 74% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Nye's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Nye, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 2022 | No storm report | 6,969 | 26% | 5.0 h | 3.8 h | 22k |
| Jan 1, 2023 | Winter storm | 8,678 | 32% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 17k |
| Nov 22, 2019 | Winter storm | 1,679 | 6% | 10 h | 4.8 h | 16k |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Windstorm | 900 | 3% | 20 h | – | 14k |
| Jul 25, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,150 | 8% | 7.8 h | 8.0 h | 7.6k |
| Sep 22, 2023 | No storm report | 824 | 3% | 9.2 h | – | 7.6k |
| Mar 22, 2018 | No storm report | 825 | 3% | 8.2 h | – | 5.1k |
| Dec 29, 2022 | No storm report | 8,146 | 30% | 48 min | 12 min | 5.1k |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Windstorm | 1,012 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 5.0k |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Winter storm | 930 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 5.0k |
| Jan 22, 2024 | No storm report | 1,615 | 6% | 3.2 h | 1.0 h | 4.9k |
| May 22, 2020 | No storm report | 886 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 4.8k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | No storm report | 929 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 4.6k |
| Feb 7, 2017 | No storm report | 442 | 2% | 12 h | – | 4.5k |
| Mar 21, 2017 | No storm report | 435 | 2% | 12 h | – | 4.5k |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 362 | 1% | 14 h | – | 4.2k |
| Jan 21, 2019 | Windstorm | 576 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 4.0k |
| Aug 13, 2020 | No storm report | 3,437 | 13% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 3.9k |
| Aug 21, 2023 | Windstorm | 1,628 | 6% | 3.0 h | 12 min | 3.5k |
| Aug 20, 2023 | No storm report | 1,754 | 7% | 3.2 h | 1.2 h | 3.2k |
| Feb 12, 2022 | No storm report | 1,210 | 5% | 2.5 h | – | 3.0k |
| Oct 11, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,217 | 5% | 2.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Mar 14, 2018 | No storm report | 426 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Mar 26, 2024 | No storm report | 1,546 | 6% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 2.7k |
| Mar 13, 2021 | No storm report | 881 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jul 29, 2022 | Flooding | 1,146 | 4% | 2.8 h | – | 2.6k |
| May 22, 2023 | No storm report | 915 | 3% | 2.8 h | – | 2.5k |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Winter storm | 972 | 4% | 2.8 h | – | 2.5k |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 1,353 | 5% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.4k |
| Nov 16, 2025 | Windstorm | 628 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 2.4k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Nye from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 55%
- Winter storm 17%
- Windstorm 16%
- Thunderstorms 7.1%
- Flooding 2.0%
- Heat 1.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Nye
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Nevada territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada Power Co | Investor Owned | 71 | 54 | 0.65 | 13.1 | 933k |
| Sierra Pacific Power Co | Investor Owned | 288 | 240 | 2.51 | 13.7 | 335k |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | Cooperative | 93 | 50 | 0.84 | 15.3 | 23k |
| Mt Wheeler Power, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 9.4 | 5.2k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 26,896 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →