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2016 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 189K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 15 Maine counties and 717th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 11, 2016 20:30 | July 12, 2016 01:15 | 4h 45m | 21,716 | 32K |
| 2 | July 8, 2016 18:30 | July 8, 2016 20:30 | 2h | 8,591 | 4,034 |
| 3 | December 1, 2016 12:00 | December 4, 2016 01:30 | 2d 13h | 4,019 | 51K |
| 4 | February 25, 2016 08:15 | February 25, 2016 22:00 | 13h 45m | 3,461 | 8,586 |
| 5 | May 31, 2016 18:00 | June 1, 2016 00:00 | 6h | 3,342 | 3,781 |
| 6 | January 10, 2016 22:45 | January 13, 2016 00:45 | 2d 2h | 2,362 | 12K |
| 7 | February 20, 2016 21:00 | February 21, 2016 12:00 | 15h | 2,004 | 19K |
| 8 | November 14, 2016 13:45 | November 14, 2016 14:15 | 30m | 1,396 | 351 |
| 9 | September 11, 2016 11:30 | September 11, 2016 13:30 | 2h | 1,387 | 677 |
| 10 | May 24, 2016 15:30 | May 24, 2016 18:00 | 2h 30m | 1,373 | 3,067 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 58 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 17.1 hrs | 4.28 | 8.2 hrs | 3.46 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2016 | 11.6 hrs | 6.58 | 9.3 hrs | 5.54 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/maine/aroostook-county