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2016 Franklin County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Franklin County, ME went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 15 Maine counties and 489th 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 Franklin 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 12, 2016 14:45 | July 12, 2016 17:30 | 2h 45m | 5,082 | 5,196 |
| 2 | December 25, 2016 09:45 | December 26, 2016 04:15 | 18h 30m | 3,911 | 23K |
| 3 | October 11, 2016 18:30 | October 11, 2016 19:00 | 30m | 3,412 | 1,706 |
| 4 | November 22, 2016 20:00 | November 23, 2016 04:15 | 8h 15m | 2,837 | 5,794 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 21:00 | February 26, 2016 01:00 | 1d 4h | 2,504 | 28K |
| 6 | April 3, 2016 16:00 | April 4, 2016 01:15 | 9h 15m | 2,245 | 7,427 |
| 7 | June 22, 2016 20:00 | June 22, 2016 21:00 | 1h | 2,224 | 1,132 |
| 8 | January 19, 2016 21:00 | January 19, 2016 22:00 | 1h | 1,921 | 1,688 |
| 9 | February 28, 2016 14:00 | February 28, 2016 17:00 | 3h | 1,866 | 3,957 |
| 10 | June 9, 2016 12:15 | June 9, 2016 20:30 | 8h 15m | 1,548 | 3,348 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 74 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 Franklin 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 ÷ 20,532 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county