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2015 Essex County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Essex County, VT went without power for an average of 19.4 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Vermont average 2.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 14 Vermont counties and 123rd 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 Essex 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 | April 4, 2015 04:15 | April 4, 2015 06:15 | 2h | 1,224 | 2,448 |
| 2 | October 8, 2015 14:15 | October 8, 2015 16:15 | 2h | 923 | 464 |
| 3 | April 20, 2015 21:30 | April 21, 2015 02:30 | 5h | 739 | 2,600 |
| 4 | April 26, 2015 23:45 | April 27, 2015 02:00 | 2h 15m | 739 | 1,517 |
| 5 | January 10, 2015 09:45 | January 10, 2015 12:30 | 2h 45m | 725 | 1,587 |
| 6 | June 16, 2015 17:15 | June 16, 2015 22:00 | 4h 45m | 602 | 2,710 |
| 7 | April 3, 2015 14:00 | April 3, 2015 17:45 | 3h 45m | 598 | 2,112 |
| 8 | January 21, 2015 15:45 | January 22, 2015 17:45 | 1d 2h | 595 | 744 |
| 9 | April 14, 2015 03:00 | April 14, 2015 07:00 | 4h | 568 | 1,020 |
| 10 | January 20, 2015 06:30 | January 20, 2015 10:15 | 3h 45m | 536 | 1,124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 38 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Essex 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Lyndonville - (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 ÷ 2,162 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county