Town of Wallingford, CT
How often Town of Wallingford goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Town of Wallingford's Connecticut customers went without power for only 53 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 75% less outage time than the Connecticut state average of 3.5 hours a year.
How long a single Town of Wallingford outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Town of Wallingford customers keep power almost all year. Serving 25,123 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Town of Wallingford's record was measured
Town of Wallingford filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Connecticut territory, serving 25,123 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Connecticut as a whole, across every utility that filed: Connecticut's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.