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2015 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Maine average 2.8 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 15 Maine counties and 1158th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 26, 2015 13:30 | February 26, 2015 19:45 | 6h 15m | 3,686 | 6,130 |
| 2 | May 27, 2015 21:30 | May 28, 2015 20:30 | 23h | 2,872 | 10K |
| 3 | October 20, 2015 08:15 | October 20, 2015 10:45 | 2h 30m | 2,394 | 700 |
| 4 | April 20, 2015 23:30 | April 21, 2015 18:15 | 18h 45m | 2,100 | 13K |
| 5 | December 18, 2015 00:00 | December 18, 2015 04:30 | 4h 30m | 1,999 | 3,651 |
| 6 | November 8, 2015 10:15 | November 8, 2015 15:00 | 4h 45m | 1,929 | 6,263 |
| 7 | July 31, 2015 03:45 | July 31, 2015 05:00 | 1h 15m | 1,574 | 1,580 |
| 8 | July 29, 2015 12:15 | July 29, 2015 15:45 | 3h 30m | 1,563 | 1,641 |
| 9 | December 1, 2015 15:00 | December 1, 2015 22:15 | 7h 15m | 1,394 | 1,407 |
| 10 | April 15, 2015 20:00 | April 15, 2015 22:45 | 2h 45m | 1,325 | 3,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 53 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Aroostook County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Versant Power | 2015 | 5.8 hrs | 2.58 | 4.7 hrs | 2.34 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2015 | 9.2 hrs | 7.73 | 8.5 hrs | 7.39 |
| Houlton Water Company | - | - | - | - | - |
| Van Buren Light & Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Maine's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 42,053 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Aroostook County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aroostook County, ME annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/maine/aroostook-county