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2016 Knox County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Knox County, ME went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 15 Maine counties and 391st 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 Knox 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 30, 2016 07:00 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 17h 15m | 4,098 | 25K |
| 2 | January 10, 2016 20:30 | January 12, 2016 22:00 | 2d 1h | 3,763 | 45K |
| 3 | December 18, 2016 13:00 | December 18, 2016 14:45 | 1h 45m | 3,201 | 2,678 |
| 4 | May 21, 2016 13:15 | May 21, 2016 14:45 | 1h 30m | 2,522 | 3,532 |
| 5 | November 11, 2016 17:00 | November 11, 2016 22:30 | 5h 30m | 1,880 | 2,510 |
| 6 | August 11, 2016 10:00 | August 11, 2016 12:30 | 2h 30m | 1,681 | 3,126 |
| 7 | April 3, 2016 15:30 | April 4, 2016 15:30 | 1d | 1,615 | 3,938 |
| 8 | February 16, 2016 08:15 | February 16, 2016 09:45 | 1h 30m | 1,493 | 1,932 |
| 9 | April 7, 2016 21:15 | April 8, 2016 21:00 | 23h 45m | 1,268 | 9,407 |
| 10 | December 16, 2016 15:45 | December 16, 2016 18:30 | 2h 45m | 1,247 | 3,142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 80 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 Knox 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 |
| Fox Islands Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Matinicus Plantation Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,343 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county