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2017 Orleans County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Orleans County, VT went without power for an average of 11.1 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (Vermont average 10.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 490th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orleans County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 30, 2017 05:45 | November 1, 2017 06:45 | 2d 1h | 2,497 | 76K |
| 2 | May 18, 2017 21:30 | May 20, 2017 00:00 | 1d 2h | 2,033 | 7,731 |
| 3 | August 26, 2017 02:30 | August 26, 2017 09:15 | 6h 45m | 2,024 | 14K |
| 4 | April 1, 2017 10:30 | April 1, 2017 18:15 | 7h 45m | 1,309 | 3,299 |
| 5 | October 24, 2017 14:45 | October 24, 2017 19:30 | 4h 45m | 993 | 1,498 |
| 6 | November 5, 2017 19:00 | November 5, 2017 20:30 | 1h 30m | 975 | 731 |
| 7 | November 5, 2017 16:30 | November 5, 2017 18:00 | 1h 30m | 973 | 1,216 |
| 8 | November 1, 2017 07:30 | November 1, 2017 15:15 | 7h 45m | 876 | 3,864 |
| 9 | December 18, 2017 23:00 | December 19, 2017 04:45 | 5h 45m | 854 | 680 |
| 10 | November 1, 2017 16:00 | November 1, 2017 23:45 | 7h 45m | 801 | 2,678 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 40 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 29.1 hrs | 2.72 | 3.3 hrs | 1.72 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/vermont/orleans-county