Notes from the data
What Connecticut's public outage records actually show. Every figure links to the dataset it came from.
On a well in Connecticut? When the power goes out, so does your water
2026-07-16
Well pumps run on electricity, and Connecticut's rural counties, where wells cluster, carry the heaviest per-household outage burden in our data. The honest numbers, county by county.
Which Connecticut county loses power the most?
2026-07-15
Ranked from federal outage data, per household: the counties that carry Connecticut's outage burden are not the ones you would guess, and in both years we can rank so far, one storm decided first place.
How often does the power actually go out in Connecticut?
2026-07-15
A decade of federal outage records, county by county: how often the grid fails, how long it takes to come back, and why one December storm was most of Windham County's whole year.