Windsor County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Windsor County, Vermont had 47 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.29 times the US outage time per person and 2.05 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 3 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

95 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Dechardest months

November and December made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2022, reached 21,318 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Vermont counties

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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	119,341	94	2
2016	276,550	88	3
2017	279,907	124	6
2018	978,310	87	6
2019	480,325	69	4
2020	207,062	86	4
2021	228,866	78	8
2022	1,038,010	87	8
2023	564,094	92	6

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
Dec 16, 2022	95.0	21,318	785,773
Nov 28, 2018	82.2	11,000	364,427
Nov 1, 2019	83.0	8,359	333,378
Mar 14, 2023	83.8	8,028	323,302
Nov 27, 2018	32.5	13,372	289,670

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.