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2016 Hancock County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hancock County, ME went without power for an average of 30.4 hours, a total of 944K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 15 Maine counties and 94th 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 Hancock 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 | January 10, 2016 20:15 | January 14, 2016 02:45 | 3d 6h | 22,804 | 464K |
| 2 | September 11, 2016 08:45 | September 12, 2016 10:45 | 1d 2h | 17,884 | 16K |
| 3 | December 24, 2016 15:30 | December 24, 2016 21:45 | 6h 15m | 7,979 | 19K |
| 4 | October 10, 2016 05:00 | October 11, 2016 09:45 | 1d 4h | 7,527 | 21K |
| 5 | December 30, 2016 04:00 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 20h 15m | 6,192 | 45K |
| 6 | December 15, 2016 21:00 | December 16, 2016 22:30 | 1d 1h | 5,705 | 26K |
| 7 | October 22, 2016 23:00 | October 24, 2016 10:45 | 1d 11h | 5,663 | 17K |
| 8 | February 18, 2016 22:15 | February 19, 2016 13:00 | 14h 45m | 4,460 | 25K |
| 9 | April 7, 2016 20:15 | April 9, 2016 20:15 | 2d | 4,402 | 57K |
| 10 | April 25, 2016 03:15 | April 25, 2016 09:00 | 5h 45m | 4,059 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 104 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Hancock 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 |
| Versant Power | 2016 | 17.1 hrs | 4.28 | 8.2 hrs | 3.46 |
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 ÷ 31,079 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county