Franklin County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, Vermont had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.79 times the US outage time per person and 0.49 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 12 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 30, 2017, reached 9,765 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 45.8 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	13,740	34	0
2016	52,892	47	2
2017	311,029	88	1
2018	74,684	44	2
2019	92,592	30	2
2020	23,256	29	0
2021	15,156	21	0
2022	248,700	30	4
2023	52,790	29	1

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
Oct 30, 2017	45.8	9,765	254,241
Dec 24, 2022	80.5	3,829	99,923
Dec 23, 2022	21.2	10,066	99,646
Nov 1, 2019	43.8	4,361	58,516
Nov 28, 2018	38.2	1,555	26,142

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.