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2016 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 50.0 hours, a total of 510K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Maine counties and 51st 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 Piscataquis 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 16, 2016 14:45 | December 16, 2016 20:45 | 6h | 9,382 | 38K |
| 2 | December 30, 2016 03:45 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 20h 30m | 7,884 | 79K |
| 3 | March 24, 2016 12:00 | March 24, 2016 13:30 | 1h 30m | 6,132 | 6,240 |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 16:45 | April 4, 2016 16:15 | 23h 30m | 5,750 | 27K |
| 5 | July 18, 2016 18:30 | July 20, 2016 21:45 | 2d 3h | 5,552 | 92K |
| 6 | December 16, 2016 07:15 | December 16, 2016 07:45 | 30m | 5,366 | 1,790 |
| 7 | April 11, 2016 15:30 | April 11, 2016 17:00 | 1h 30m | 5,178 | 5,818 |
| 8 | December 25, 2016 10:30 | December 26, 2016 00:00 | 13h 30m | 4,378 | 16K |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 23:30 | February 26, 2016 03:00 | 1d 3h | 4,104 | 33K |
| 10 | November 4, 2016 14:15 | November 4, 2016 15:00 | 45m | 3,938 | 1,690 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 150 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Piscataquis 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 ÷ 10,203 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. Piscataquis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Piscataquis 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/piscataquis-county