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Power outage history

Rutland County Vermont

6.7hours

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

11th most of 14 in Vermont close to the national median

Worst outage on record May 5, 2017 42% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year 6.7h / yr State average 8.2 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 18hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 3.3days Nov 27, 2018, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 74% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2022 13 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 37,828 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 Rutland'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Rutland, hours without power per customer

RutlandUS median countyVermont average

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
May 5, 2017	Windstorm	15,886	42%	41 h	22 h	234k
Dec 22, 2022	Windstorm	8,620	23%	2.9 d	2.1 d	203k
Oct 30, 2017	Windstorm	6,589	17%	2.7 d	2.3 d	152k
Dec 16, 2022	Winter storm	8,904	24%	45 h	29 h	147k
Nov 27, 2018	Winter storm	3,447	9%	3.3 d	2.7 d	129k
Apr 3, 2024	Winter storm	7,162	19%	2.1 d	18 h	110k
Jan 13, 2024	Windstorm	8,084	21%	35 h	27 h	91k
Mar 29, 2025	Ice storm	5,433	14%	40 h	32 h	80k
Jan 9, 2024	Windstorm	5,343	14%	23 h	14 h	63k
Jul 13, 2023	Thunderstorms	5,699	15%	23 h	18 h	52k
Nov 26, 2021	Winter storm	4,074	11%	22 h	12 h	50k
Jul 27, 2016	No storm report	4,320	11%	7.2 h	5.0 h	29k
Nov 1, 2019	Windstorm	2,909	8%	23 h	25 h	27k
Aug 9, 2024	Hurricane Debby	4,556	12%	18 h	17 h	26k
May 4, 2018	Thunderstorms	3,677	10%	16 h	8.8 h	25k
Apr 16, 2018	Windstorm	3,096	8%	22 h	12 h	25k
Apr 4, 2018	No storm report	3,020	8%	15 h	11 h	21k
Oct 17, 2019	Windstorm	3,133	8%	16 h	8.0 h	20k
Jul 18, 2016	No storm report	1,891	5%	11 h	–	19k
Jun 28, 2015	No storm report	2,969	8%	12 h	9.8 h	17k
Feb 7, 2020	Winter storm	2,112	6%	15 h	3.2 h	15k
Jul 10, 2023	No storm report	1,308	3%	23 h	–	13k
Jul 23, 2016	Thunderstorms	2,520	7%	9.2 h	7.0 h	13k
Apr 7, 2022	No storm report	1,938	5%	12 h	11 h	12k
Dec 19, 2025	No storm report	2,789	7%	11 h	10 h	12k
Mar 12, 2021	No storm report	2,445	6%	4.8 h	4.0 h	11k
Nov 28, 2024	Winter storm	1,254	3%	21 h	–	11k
Oct 30, 2025	No storm report	2,819	7%	6.5 h	6.0 h	11k
Aug 4, 2024	Thunderstorms	4,423	12%	4.0 h	1.8 h	10k
Jan 16, 2021	Winter storm	2,328	6%	8.2 h	7.8 h	9.1k

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.

When it happens

The outage clock

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

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

Winter storm 32%
Windstorm 28%
No storm on record 26%
Thunderstorms 6.5%
Ice storm 4.9%
Tropical storm 1.9%
Flooding 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Rutland

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

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

Windsor 15 h
Washington, NY 11 h
Addison 9.5 h
Bennington 7.5 h
Rutland (this county) 6.7 h

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 37,828 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 →