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2016 Lincoln County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, ME went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 233K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 15 Maine counties and 350th 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 Lincoln 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 23:45 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 1d | 7,594 | 87K |
| 2 | January 10, 2016 19:45 | January 12, 2016 20:00 | 2d | 6,096 | 44K |
| 3 | April 3, 2016 17:00 | April 5, 2016 00:30 | 1d 7h | 3,578 | 21K |
| 4 | February 16, 2016 21:30 | February 17, 2016 18:30 | 21h | 2,725 | 10K |
| 5 | November 11, 2016 17:00 | November 11, 2016 22:30 | 5h 30m | 1,870 | 3,296 |
| 6 | September 19, 2016 10:45 | September 19, 2016 14:15 | 3h 30m | 1,856 | 2,391 |
| 7 | April 7, 2016 20:45 | April 8, 2016 22:30 | 1d 1h | 1,675 | 20K |
| 8 | March 13, 2016 16:00 | March 13, 2016 18:00 | 2h | 1,450 | 1,119 |
| 9 | January 5, 2016 11:30 | January 5, 2016 12:30 | 1h | 1,362 | 1,047 |
| 10 | September 12, 2016 05:45 | September 12, 2016 06:00 | 15m | 1,339 | 335 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 83 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 23,436 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county