Lamoille County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lamoille County, Vermont had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.05 times the US outage time per person and 0.65 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 11 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Novhardest months

October and November made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 30, 2017, reached 6,816 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.5 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	18,836	21	0
2016	21,060	12	0
2017	183,101	79	1
2018	111,432	28	4
2019	80,665	22	1
2020	19,836	24	0
2021	13,298	19	0
2022	91,908	13	3
2023	66,830	17	4

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	46.5	6,816	136,523
May 5, 2018	41.2	3,009	53,946
Nov 1, 2019	34.5	3,767	46,972
Dec 23, 2022	19.5	2,941	44,291
Nov 28, 2018	49.8	1,143	27,488

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.