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2019 Essex County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Essex County, VT went without power for an average of 47.9 hours, a total of 104K customer-hours (Vermont average 6.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 14 Vermont counties and 62nd 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 Essex 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 | June 26, 2019 10:30 | June 26, 2019 13:00 | 2h 30m | 2,608 | 1,119 |
| 2 | November 1, 2019 02:45 | November 4, 2019 17:00 | 3d 14h | 2,147 | 60K |
| 3 | February 8, 2019 21:00 | February 9, 2019 06:45 | 9h 45m | 1,485 | 3,627 |
| 4 | April 3, 2019 18:45 | April 4, 2019 03:15 | 8h 30m | 1,368 | 4,773 |
| 5 | March 22, 2019 16:30 | March 23, 2019 21:15 | 1d 4h | 1,071 | 3,290 |
| 6 | January 24, 2019 20:30 | January 25, 2019 09:00 | 12h 30m | 944 | 3,089 |
| 7 | July 5, 2019 13:00 | July 5, 2019 17:30 | 4h 30m | 738 | 3,321 |
| 8 | February 15, 2019 21:45 | February 16, 2019 14:15 | 16h 30m | 728 | 11K |
| 9 | October 17, 2019 09:15 | October 17, 2019 18:30 | 9h 15m | 720 | 1,556 |
| 10 | December 28, 2019 01:00 | December 28, 2019 01:30 | 30m | 605 | 302 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 37 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 100% of Vermont's customers in 2019; 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, 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/essex-county