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2021 Orleans County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Orleans County, VT went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Vermont average 4.3 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 1638th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orleans County, 2021
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 17, 2021 08:15 | December 18, 2021 02:15 | 18h | 7,371 | 4,937 |
| 2 | December 12, 2021 03:00 | December 13, 2021 04:45 | 1d 1h | 3,648 | 12K |
| 3 | December 3, 2021 06:30 | December 3, 2021 12:45 | 6h 15m | 1,023 | 2,789 |
| 4 | September 8, 2021 18:00 | September 9, 2021 07:45 | 13h 45m | 1,009 | 1,143 |
| 5 | October 16, 2021 19:00 | October 17, 2021 04:30 | 9h 30m | 998 | 3,265 |
| 6 | July 19, 2021 15:45 | July 19, 2021 18:00 | 2h 15m | 986 | 1,635 |
| 7 | September 24, 2021 16:15 | September 24, 2021 22:15 | 6h | 681 | 511 |
| 8 | December 19, 2021 18:45 | December 19, 2021 19:45 | 1h | 559 | 559 |
| 9 | July 6, 2021 10:45 | July 6, 2021 12:45 | 2h | 453 | 472 |
| 10 | March 28, 2021 17:45 | March 29, 2021 20:30 | 1d 2h | 446 | 2,968 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 22 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 Orleans County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.6 hrs | 1.91 | 3.6 hrs | 1.91 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/vermont/orleans-county