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2016 Orange County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orange County, VT went without power for an average of 14.8 hours, a total of 263K customer-hours (Vermont average 4.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 14 Vermont counties and 218th 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 Orange 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 | July 23, 2016 20:30 | July 26, 2016 05:15 | 2d 8h | 8,784 | 154K |
| 2 | March 1, 2016 04:45 | March 2, 2016 08:15 | 1d 3h | 2,787 | 13K |
| 3 | August 20, 2016 18:45 | August 21, 2016 01:00 | 6h 15m | 2,002 | 8,837 |
| 4 | August 10, 2016 10:30 | August 10, 2016 21:00 | 10h 30m | 1,514 | 4,927 |
| 5 | October 19, 2016 10:45 | October 19, 2016 16:45 | 6h | 1,492 | 1,784 |
| 6 | October 27, 2016 23:45 | October 29, 2016 19:00 | 1d 19h | 1,419 | 16K |
| 7 | June 5, 2016 16:30 | June 6, 2016 07:15 | 14h 45m | 1,006 | 3,026 |
| 8 | July 18, 2016 20:45 | July 19, 2016 20:15 | 23h 30m | 1,003 | 9,176 |
| 9 | March 15, 2016 12:15 | March 15, 2016 14:00 | 1h 45m | 845 | 900 |
| 10 | April 5, 2016 20:30 | April 5, 2016 22:45 | 2h 15m | 843 | 1,433 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 71 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Mountain Power Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Washington Electric Coop - (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 ÷ 17,755 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/vermont/orange-county