Washington County, Vermont Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Vermont had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.74 times the US outage time per person and 1.08 times the Vermont rate. It ranks 5 of 14 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Dechardest months

November and December made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 27, 2023, reached 16,009 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.2 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	59,695	39	1
2016	95,682	54	2
2017	314,980	116	3
2018	375,182	53	6
2019	242,958	45	2
2020	71,834	48	3
2021	114,558	50	5
2022	559,626	65	5
2023	453,100	74	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
Nov 27, 2023	57.2	16,009	205,638
Oct 30, 2017	46.5	9,894	204,259
Dec 24, 2022	109.8	6,800	191,906
Nov 1, 2019	80.2	12,162	176,302
Dec 23, 2022	20.8	13,629	152,324

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.