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2023 Washington County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, VT went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 487K customer-hours (Vermont average 10.7 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 728th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Washington County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 27, 2023 06:15 | November 30, 2023 05:30 | 2d 23h | 16,009 | 206K |
| 2 | January 15, 2023 09:45 | January 15, 2023 14:30 | 4h 45m | 6,573 | 17K |
| 3 | July 18, 2023 17:45 | July 19, 2023 05:15 | 11h 30m | 6,356 | 5,442 |
| 4 | July 19, 2023 13:15 | July 19, 2023 18:30 | 5h 15m | 6,118 | 2,925 |
| 5 | March 14, 2023 08:15 | March 15, 2023 23:15 | 1d 15h | 3,922 | 30K |
| 6 | July 10, 2023 19:30 | July 13, 2023 14:15 | 2d 18h | 3,737 | 64K |
| 7 | December 4, 2023 00:00 | December 6, 2023 19:15 | 2d 19h | 3,438 | 65K |
| 8 | July 13, 2023 17:00 | July 15, 2023 20:15 | 2d 3h | 2,574 | 12K |
| 9 | August 27, 2023 18:00 | August 27, 2023 20:30 | 2h 30m | 2,182 | 548 |
| 10 | November 10, 2023 02:00 | November 10, 2023 04:15 | 2h 15m | 1,814 | 2,472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 84 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Washington County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hardwick | - | - | - | - | - |
| Washington Electric Coop - (VT) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Northfield - (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 n/a of Vermont's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 41,387 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington County, VT annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/vermont/washington-county