Caledonia County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Caledonia County, Vermont had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.09 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 10 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

62 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Dechardest months

November and December made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 1, 2019, reached 5,537 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 61.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	12,720	23	0
2016	17,926	13	1
2017	52,418	33	1
2018	115,913	26	5
2019	127,026	20	3
2020	68,382	26	1
2021	27,462	24	1
2022	142,229	31	3
2023	166,223	35	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Nov 1, 2019	61.8	5,537	106,799
Nov 27, 2023	40.5	6,499	63,842
Dec 23, 2022	21.5	3,650	57,260
Feb 7, 2020	20.8	3,686	55,052
Dec 24, 2022	32.0	2,810	47,118

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.