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2016 Essex County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Essex County, VT went without power for an average of 15.2 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Vermont average 4.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 14 Vermont counties and 212th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 23, 2016 17:15 | February 23, 2016 23:15 | 6h | 925 | 640 |
| 2 | July 14, 2016 21:15 | July 15, 2016 02:15 | 5h | 805 | 1,733 |
| 3 | July 19, 2016 01:00 | July 19, 2016 03:30 | 2h 30m | 765 | 1,794 |
| 4 | August 28, 2016 21:45 | August 29, 2016 05:15 | 7h 30m | 765 | 3,172 |
| 5 | July 23, 2016 03:30 | July 23, 2016 15:45 | 12h 15m | 764 | 5,883 |
| 6 | September 11, 2016 12:00 | September 12, 2016 02:00 | 14h | 744 | 4,850 |
| 7 | January 22, 2016 17:15 | January 22, 2016 19:00 | 1h 45m | 663 | 934 |
| 8 | July 30, 2016 09:00 | July 30, 2016 09:15 | 15m | 651 | 163 |
| 9 | December 14, 2016 01:45 | December 14, 2016 04:00 | 2h 15m | 641 | 1,442 |
| 10 | June 1, 2016 14:30 | June 1, 2016 20:30 | 6h | 569 | 821 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 27 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.70 | 3.6 hrs | 1.70 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/vermont/essex-county