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2015 Chittenden County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Chittenden County, VT went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Vermont average 2.6 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 1891st of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chittenden County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2015 16:30 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 1h 15m | 4,886 | 1,335 |
| 2 | April 13, 2015 16:00 | April 13, 2015 19:45 | 3h 45m | 4,842 | 8,177 |
| 3 | September 9, 2015 14:00 | September 9, 2015 17:15 | 3h 15m | 2,197 | 1,649 |
| 4 | November 4, 2015 21:00 | November 5, 2015 01:00 | 4h | 2,141 | 3,304 |
| 5 | June 24, 2015 04:30 | June 24, 2015 06:30 | 2h | 1,918 | 2,650 |
| 6 | May 11, 2015 19:45 | May 11, 2015 22:00 | 2h 15m | 1,676 | 468 |
| 7 | August 21, 2015 14:30 | August 21, 2015 15:15 | 45m | 1,646 | 477 |
| 8 | July 29, 2015 16:15 | July 30, 2015 04:45 | 12h 30m | 1,513 | 3,024 |
| 9 | March 26, 2015 19:15 | March 26, 2015 22:15 | 3h | 1,488 | 1,121 |
| 10 | August 1, 2015 02:15 | August 1, 2015 05:15 | 3h | 1,353 | 2,340 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 89 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Chittenden County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2015 | 3.5 hrs | 1.88 | 3.5 hrs | 1.88 |
| Green Mountain Power Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Burlington Electric - (VT) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Vermont's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 113,089 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Chittenden County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chittenden County, VT annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/vermont/chittenden-county