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2020 Orleans County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Orleans County, VT went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Vermont average 3.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 2120th 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 Orleans 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 | March 20, 2020 22:30 | March 21, 2020 07:15 | 8h 45m | 4,386 | 5,416 |
| 2 | October 10, 2020 19:45 | October 11, 2020 11:45 | 16h | 1,335 | 4,991 |
| 3 | September 9, 2020 11:15 | September 9, 2020 21:00 | 9h 45m | 1,211 | 326 |
| 4 | July 25, 2020 04:45 | July 25, 2020 05:15 | 30m | 994 | 249 |
| 5 | December 9, 2020 15:15 | December 9, 2020 18:00 | 2h 45m | 884 | 305 |
| 6 | August 5, 2020 00:00 | August 5, 2020 05:30 | 5h 30m | 595 | 615 |
| 7 | February 7, 2020 20:00 | February 7, 2020 22:15 | 2h 15m | 573 | 362 |
| 8 | February 12, 2020 12:15 | February 12, 2020 15:00 | 2h 45m | 447 | 773 |
| 9 | November 2, 2020 17:45 | November 3, 2020 12:15 | 18h 30m | 405 | 1,490 |
| 10 | August 12, 2020 06:45 | August 12, 2020 07:00 | 15m | 294 | 74 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.63 | 2.6 hrs | 1.63 |
| 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 100% of Vermont's customers in 2020; 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, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/vermont/orleans-county