Rutland County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rutland County, Vermont had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.44 times the US outage time per person and 0.90 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 7 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Mayhardest months

December and May made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 5, 2017, reached 15,886 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.8 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	99,646	55	1
2016	118,426	53	3
2017	449,238	115	2
2018	287,879	73	6
2019	113,837	62	2
2020	87,232	75	1
2021	146,947	68	4
2022	465,340	77	6
2023	138,118	63	3

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
May 5, 2017	44.8	15,886	235,374
Dec 17, 2022	49.2	8,904	147,848
Oct 30, 2017	47.8	6,589	144,059
Dec 23, 2022	31.0	8,620	141,029
Nov 28, 2018	56.5	3,337	70,227

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.