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2024 Essex County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Essex County, VT went without power for an average of 25.5 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Vermont average 11.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 14 Vermont counties and 382nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 13, 2024 12:00 | January 14, 2024 21:00 | 1d 9h | 2,214 | 11K |
| 2 | June 4, 2024 11:00 | June 4, 2024 22:30 | 11h 30m | 950 | 494 |
| 3 | October 12, 2024 10:00 | October 12, 2024 23:30 | 13h 30m | 920 | 5,005 |
| 4 | August 9, 2024 22:30 | August 12, 2024 15:30 | 2d 17h | 910 | 7,486 |
| 5 | February 29, 2024 01:30 | February 29, 2024 23:45 | 22h 15m | 813 | 4,184 |
| 6 | April 4, 2024 01:15 | April 5, 2024 23:30 | 1d 22h | 760 | 5,474 |
| 7 | January 26, 2024 16:00 | January 26, 2024 18:00 | 2h | 692 | 881 |
| 8 | January 10, 2024 06:45 | January 12, 2024 19:15 | 2d 12h | 600 | 5,901 |
| 9 | February 13, 2024 04:30 | February 13, 2024 04:45 | 15m | 599 | 150 |
| 10 | September 19, 2024 13:45 | September 19, 2024 14:00 | 15m | 598 | 150 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 36 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 14.9 hrs | 3.34 | 3.9 hrs | 1.40 |
| 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 n/a of Vermont's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/vermont/essex-county