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2019 Chittenden County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Chittenden County, VT went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 132K customer-hours (Vermont average 6.8 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 2427th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chittenden County, 2019
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 30, 2019 15:30 | July 31, 2019 09:00 | 17h 30m | 4,375 | 12K |
| 2 | April 13, 2019 03:45 | April 13, 2019 07:15 | 3h 30m | 2,299 | 5,175 |
| 3 | July 6, 2019 17:15 | July 6, 2019 22:45 | 5h 30m | 1,893 | 5,718 |
| 4 | March 23, 2019 02:15 | March 24, 2019 05:15 | 1d 3h | 1,843 | 12K |
| 5 | August 9, 2019 10:30 | August 10, 2019 03:45 | 17h 15m | 1,750 | 1,807 |
| 6 | August 5, 2019 12:15 | August 5, 2019 15:30 | 3h 15m | 1,633 | 4,490 |
| 7 | April 26, 2019 17:00 | April 27, 2019 01:45 | 8h 45m | 1,481 | 2,129 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 23:45 | November 3, 2019 03:30 | 2d 3h | 1,404 | 19K |
| 9 | September 14, 2019 03:00 | September 14, 2019 14:30 | 11h 30m | 1,365 | 2,301 |
| 10 | August 11, 2019 17:30 | August 11, 2019 19:45 | 2h 15m | 1,325 | 2,978 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 93 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Chittenden County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 | 2018 | 15.5 hrs | 3.39 | 6.0 hrs | 2.34 |
| Green Mountain Power Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Burlington Electric - (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 100% of Vermont's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 113,089 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. Chittenden County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chittenden County, VT annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/vermont/chittenden-county