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2016 Orleans County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orleans County, VT went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Vermont average 4.3 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 797th 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 Orleans 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 14, 2016 08:15 | February 14, 2016 23:00 | 14h 45m | 1,823 | 21K |
| 2 | April 24, 2016 15:30 | April 24, 2016 16:00 | 30m | 972 | 486 |
| 3 | March 10, 2016 11:00 | March 10, 2016 13:00 | 2h | 854 | 1,499 |
| 4 | April 12, 2016 15:00 | April 12, 2016 15:15 | 15m | 854 | 214 |
| 5 | October 23, 2016 04:45 | October 23, 2016 21:00 | 16h 15m | 698 | 2,881 |
| 6 | September 11, 2016 11:00 | September 11, 2016 20:30 | 9h 30m | 620 | 1,769 |
| 7 | July 17, 2016 15:45 | July 17, 2016 19:15 | 3h 30m | 604 | 1,006 |
| 8 | February 15, 2016 16:00 | February 15, 2016 19:00 | 3h | 506 | 1,518 |
| 9 | August 28, 2016 06:45 | August 28, 2016 07:00 | 15m | 476 | 119 |
| 10 | July 23, 2016 02:00 | July 23, 2016 08:15 | 6h 15m | 319 | 1,283 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 29 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 Orleans 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hardwick | - | - | - | - | - |
| Washington Electric Coop - (VT) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Lyndonville - (VT) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Barton Village, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Orleans - (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 ÷ 12,150 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. Orleans County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orleans 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/orleans-county