Las Vegas / Winnemucca
Winnemucca has 8,361 residents (give or take 41) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19), about 855 people per square mile.
Winnemucca is about 353 miles from the Census center point for Las Vegas in a straight line and covers 9.774 square miles of land (Census 2024 Gazetteer internal points and land area, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2024_Gazetteer/, checked 2026-10-19).
Of the 3,444 occupied homes in Winnemucca, 73% heat with natural gas, 1% with heating oil, 19% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 73% of Winnemucca against electricity at 19%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Winnemucca has about the Humboldt County oil share of 2% and 8 points less electric heat than the county's 27% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US32013, checked 2026-10-19).
Winnemucca has 3,793 housing units, 9% built before 1940 and 36% before 1980, with 24% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19).
Winnemucca has 4 points more pre-1940 homes than Humboldt County as a whole (5%) and 3 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 27% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US32013, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Winnemucca home was built in 1987 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19).
59% of Winnemucca homes are single-family detached, 14% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 8% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19).
39% of Winnemucca homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 59% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Winnemucca has 9 points more detached houses than Humboldt County overall (50%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US32013, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Winnemucca on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Median household income in Winnemucca is $81,824 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3284800, checked 2026-10-19); many state and utility heat pump rebate programs set higher incentive tiers for income-qualifying households, so the household income on the application, not the town median, decides which level applies.
Heating design temperature: -9F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Humboldt County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 80 to 81 of 141 (Revised 11/11/2020), https://www.energystar.gov/sites/default/files/Design%20Temperature%20Limit%20Reference%20Guide%20(2019%20Ed)%20-%20ENERGY%20STAR%20Single-Family%20New%20Homes_Rev11.pdf, fetched 2026-10-19, 99%.
That -9F figure is the Humboldt County cold-day number a Winnemucca heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at -9F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 73% of Winnemucca on gas and 19% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Winnemucca home has 5 rooms and was built around 1987, and the count of heads and the tonnage follow the rooms and the insulation, not the square footage.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Winnemucca. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Winnemucca yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.