Esmeralda County, Nevada Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Esmeralda County, Nevada had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

17 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 21, 2019, reached 351 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 17.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	3,323	2	1
2016	930	2	0
2017	13,868	7	2
2018	3,658	5	0
2019	15,757	6	2
2020	7,082	11	2
2021	13,868	10	2
2022	8,664	8	1
2023	4,881	11	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Nov 21, 2019	17.0	351	5,937
Aug 11, 2021	12.0	395	4,740
Mar 30, 2017	14.5	312	4,508
Feb 16, 2019	3.0	1,703	4,423
Apr 21, 2017	12.8	313	3,991

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
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