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2022 Essex County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Essex County, VT went without power for an average of 30.3 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Vermont average 13.6 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 14 Vermont counties and 167th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex County, 2022
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 23, 2022 08:45 | December 27, 2022 08:30 | 3d 23h | 1,582 | 36K |
| 2 | July 21, 2022 18:00 | July 22, 2022 06:15 | 12h 15m | 1,336 | 7,805 |
| 3 | March 8, 2022 02:45 | March 8, 2022 06:15 | 3h 30m | 1,176 | 898 |
| 4 | April 8, 2022 02:30 | April 8, 2022 19:45 | 17h 15m | 1,071 | 3,865 |
| 5 | March 22, 2022 17:00 | March 22, 2022 19:00 | 2h | 753 | 631 |
| 6 | September 25, 2022 02:30 | September 25, 2022 04:45 | 2h 15m | 753 | 840 |
| 7 | July 16, 2022 23:00 | July 17, 2022 00:00 | 1h | 752 | 633 |
| 8 | May 21, 2022 22:45 | May 22, 2022 04:45 | 6h | 593 | 454 |
| 9 | October 13, 2022 21:45 | October 14, 2022 04:15 | 6h 30m | 577 | 2,061 |
| 10 | April 19, 2022 10:15 | April 20, 2022 22:45 | 1d 12h | 508 | 3,243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 28 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 Essex County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 15.2 hrs | 2.44 | 3.0 hrs | 1.95 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/vermont/essex-county