Town of Mansfield, MA
How often Town of Mansfield goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Town of Mansfield's Massachusetts customers went without power for only 21 minutes across 0.1 separate outages last year. That is 83% less outage time than the Massachusetts state average of 2 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here average 4.8 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Town of Mansfield
Serving 10,555 customers here, With a record this steady, Town of Mansfield customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Town of Mansfield files with federal regulators every year - serving 10,555 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Massachusetts is covered too: see Massachusetts's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.