Power Outages in Somerset County, ME
No live outage feed is available for Somerset County, ME yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 8.6 hours.
Somerset County, ME is served by local tracked utilities.
Somerset County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Somerset County right now.
Somerset County has been under 31 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on August 28, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×10
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×9
- Special Weather Statement ×7
- Air Quality Alert ×4
- Tornado Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Somerset County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Somerset County went about 8.6 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 27,638 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 23,402 customers out) · decade average 47.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 76 | 21,116 | 67.5 |
| 2018 | 561 | 8,334 | 27.1 |
| 2019 | 235 | 5,851 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 666 | 23,402 | 120.7 |
| 2021 | 710 | 4,874 | 13.5 |
| 2022 | 729 | 9,608 | 24.7 |
| 2023 | 670 | 27,638 | 107.3 |
| 2024 | 754 | 14,427 | 41.1 |
| 2025 | 592 | 4,245 | 8.6 |
Relatively High ice storms exposure · 47.1 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Somerset County: FAQ
- How often does Somerset County, ME lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Somerset County, ME logged 592 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 8.6 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Somerset County, ME?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 27,638 customers without power, beginning December 18, 2023 and lasting about 6d 11h.
- Is there a power outage in Somerset County, ME right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Somerset County, ME. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Somerset County.
04478, 04911, 04912, 04920, 04923, 04924, 04925, 04929, 04937, 04942, 04943, 04944, 04945, 04950, 04957, 04958, 04961, 04965, 04967, 04971, 04975, 04976, 04978, 04979, 04985
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/23025 and /api/v1/counties/23025/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Maine customers).