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2016 Cumberland County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cumberland County, ME went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 871K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 15 Maine counties and 819th 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 Cumberland 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 | December 29, 2016 21:00 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 1d 3h | 28,105 | 389K |
| 2 | July 23, 2016 01:30 | July 24, 2016 19:30 | 1d 18h | 14,976 | 88K |
| 3 | January 10, 2016 18:15 | January 12, 2016 07:00 | 1d 12h | 12,324 | 77K |
| 4 | July 13, 2016 14:45 | July 13, 2016 16:00 | 1h 15m | 7,467 | 7,490 |
| 5 | October 20, 2016 12:15 | October 20, 2016 14:30 | 2h 15m | 5,979 | 3,811 |
| 6 | April 1, 2016 20:30 | April 4, 2016 19:00 | 2d 22h | 4,854 | 31K |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 01:00 | February 16, 2016 04:45 | 3h 45m | 3,673 | 9,282 |
| 8 | July 3, 2016 09:30 | July 3, 2016 12:30 | 3h | 3,377 | 4,959 |
| 9 | November 11, 2016 12:00 | November 12, 2016 18:45 | 1d 6h | 3,317 | 7,004 |
| 10 | February 25, 2016 01:15 | February 26, 2016 00:45 | 23h 30m | 3,227 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 235 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Cumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2016 | 6.7 hrs | 2.20 | 3.3 hrs | 1.76 |
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 ÷ 227,401 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county