Power Out Map
– 0% of Pershing out 0 customers out in Nevada

Power outage history

Pershing County Nevada

5.9hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

5th most of 12 in Nevada close to the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 12, 2024 83% of customers out · 90% back in 7.8 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.9h / yr State average 2.1 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 12hours Nov 15, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 17% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 11 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,671 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Pershing's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pershing, hours without power per customer

PershingUS median countyNevada average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 1.7 ’15 5.5 ’16 8.8 ’17 1.3 ’18 4.0 ’19 2.6 ’20 3.8 ’21 7.7 ’22 10 ’23 11 ’24 7.3 ’25 US 6.6 NV 2.1

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
Aug 12, 2024 No storm report 2,223 83% 8.2 h 7.8 h 17k
Oct 1, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,838 69% 9.2 h 9.2 h 16k
Feb 21, 2022 No storm report 1,821 68% 5.2 h 5.0 h 9.5k
Aug 25, 2023 No storm report 1,832 69% 2.8 h 2.5 h 5.0k
Jun 20, 2017 Thunderstorms 788 30% 11 h 8.0 h 4.0k
May 4, 2025 No storm report 1,825 68% 2.0 h 2.0 h 3.6k
Oct 17, 2016 No storm report 580 22% 8.2 h 6.5 h 3.4k
Oct 20, 2017 Windstorm 753 28% 4.5 h 4.2 h 3.3k
Apr 25, 2025 No storm report 1,966 74% 1.5 h 1.0 h 2.9k
Mar 8, 2022 No storm report 1,825 68% 1.5 h 1.2 h 2.7k
Sep 5, 2019 No storm report 347 13% 8.0 h 6.2 h 2.6k
Aug 7, 2016 No storm report 698 26% 9.2 h 9.0 h 2.6k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Pershing from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 83%
  • Thunderstorms 15%
  • Windstorm 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pershing

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
Sierra Pacific Power Co Investor Owned 288 240 2.51 13.7 335k

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.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Nevada

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Nevada counties →

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 2,671 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 →