Addison County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Addison County, Vermont had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 8 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

61 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 30, 2017, reached 6,476 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	40,093	45	1
2016	109,386	43	2
2017	275,761	87	2
2018	91,032	42	5
2019	39,950	38	0
2020	40,654	45	0
2021	66,232	38	1
2022	438,944	39	5
2023	83,376	40	4

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
Oct 30, 2017	47.2	6,476	218,022
Dec 23, 2022	26.0	9,890	172,542
Dec 24, 2022	60.8	6,497	171,904
Jul 23, 2016	25.0	7,133	67,133
Dec 17, 2022	46.0	2,312	37,296

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.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.