Orleans County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Orleans County, Vermont had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.79 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 9 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Dechardest months

November and December made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 1, 2019, reached 5,704 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.5 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	19,719	27	0
2016	34,305	23	1
2017	119,654	68	1
2018	161,440	57	6
2019	153,100	30	1
2020	14,350	15	0
2021	33,197	24	2
2022	69,040	22	3
2023	171,273	27	5

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 1, 2019	71.5	5,704	123,800
Oct 30, 2017	45.2	2,497	74,498
Nov 27, 2023	33.8	5,515	60,385
Nov 28, 2018	35.2	2,999	39,948
Dec 11, 2023	29.2	2,242	36,498

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.