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2020 Bennington County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bennington County, VT went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Vermont average 3.8 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 1772nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bennington County, 2020
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 7, 2020 20:15 | October 8, 2020 23:00 | 1d 2h | 5,325 | 23K |
| 2 | October 16, 2020 13:15 | October 16, 2020 15:00 | 1h 45m | 2,175 | 3,806 |
| 3 | June 4, 2020 21:30 | June 4, 2020 22:45 | 1h 15m | 1,297 | 1,383 |
| 4 | August 4, 2020 19:00 | August 6, 2020 18:00 | 1d 23h | 1,230 | 7,938 |
| 5 | May 15, 2020 22:45 | May 16, 2020 15:30 | 16h 45m | 800 | 2,641 |
| 6 | July 22, 2020 20:15 | July 23, 2020 02:45 | 6h 30m | 719 | 544 |
| 7 | July 27, 2020 16:15 | July 27, 2020 18:30 | 2h 15m | 680 | 924 |
| 8 | August 31, 2020 05:45 | August 31, 2020 09:00 | 3h 15m | 670 | 1,970 |
| 9 | September 15, 2020 21:45 | September 15, 2020 23:15 | 1h 30m | 670 | 859 |
| 10 | July 7, 2020 19:30 | July 7, 2020 20:45 | 1h 15m | 668 | 835 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 62 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 Bennington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,874 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. Bennington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bennington County, VT annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/vermont/bennington-county