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2020 Orange County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Orange County, VT went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (Vermont average 3.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 14 Vermont counties and 928th 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 Orange 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 | December 15, 2020 04:15 | December 15, 2020 14:30 | 10h 15m | 4,136 | 14K |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 16:15 | February 9, 2020 10:30 | 1d 18h | 3,774 | 33K |
| 3 | August 4, 2020 21:15 | August 8, 2020 13:30 | 3d 16h | 3,753 | 25K |
| 4 | November 30, 2020 22:30 | December 1, 2020 13:30 | 15h | 1,944 | 4,351 |
| 5 | October 16, 2020 18:15 | October 16, 2020 20:45 | 2h 30m | 1,937 | 2,700 |
| 6 | May 29, 2020 23:45 | May 30, 2020 08:15 | 8h 30m | 1,815 | 3,951 |
| 7 | February 27, 2020 11:00 | February 27, 2020 22:00 | 11h | 1,775 | 3,102 |
| 8 | August 21, 2020 04:15 | August 21, 2020 05:45 | 1h 30m | 1,719 | 2,579 |
| 9 | July 11, 2020 21:00 | July 12, 2020 00:30 | 3h 30m | 1,216 | 2,828 |
| 10 | June 23, 2020 17:15 | June 23, 2020 20:00 | 2h 45m | 1,212 | 519 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 73 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Orange 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Washington Electric Coop - (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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,755 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county