Power Out Map
– 0% of Orleans out 0 customers out in Vermont

Power outage history

Orleans County Vermont

11hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

5th most of 14 in Vermont 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Nov 1, 2019 47% of customers out · 90% back in 46 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 8.2 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 9hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.4days Nov 1, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 73% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 12,150 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Orleans's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Orleans, hours without power per customer

OrleansUS median countyVermont average
0 5 10 15 20 25 2.7 ’15 3.9 ’16 11 ’17 15 ’18 14 ’19 2.3 ’20 3.6 ’21 7.4 ’22 16 ’23 19 ’24 10 ’25 VT 8.2 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Nov 1, 2019 Windstorm 5,704 47% 3.4 d 46 h 126k
Aug 9, 2024 Hurricane Debby 4,860 40% 2.1 d 41 h 95k
Dec 19, 2025 Windstorm 5,950 49% 31 h 18 h 88k
Oct 30, 2017 Windstorm 2,497 21% 2.3 d 2.5 d 79k
Nov 27, 2023 Winter storm 5,515 45% 35 h 25 h 61k
Jan 10, 2024 Winter storm 3,935 32% 34 h 21 h 60k
Nov 27, 2018 Winter storm 2,999 25% 2.5 d 27 h 54k
Dec 11, 2023 Winter storm 2,242 18% 34 h 27 h 37k
Dec 23, 2022 Windstorm 5,241 43% 2.0 d 21 h 29k
May 4, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,258 10% 44 h 33 h 27k
Feb 14, 2016 No storm report 1,823 15% 12 h 10 h 20k
Dec 4, 2023 Winter storm 2,320 19% 19 h 7.8 h 19k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +10h 90% by +22h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Orleans from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Windstorm 30%
  • Winter storm 27%
  • No storm on record 27%
  • Tropical storm 10%
  • Thunderstorms 5.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Orleans

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Vermont territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Green Mountain Power Corp Investor Owned 265 190 1.75 23.3 228k
Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc Cooperative 251 151 2.06 24.3 36k
Village of Lyndonville VT – – – 15.8 32k
Town of Hardwick VT 17 – 6.00 17.5 24k
Washington Electric Coop Cooperative – – – 27.7 11k
Barton Village, Inc VT – – – – 10k
Village of Orleans VT – – – – 3.9k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Vermont

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Vermont counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 12,150 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →