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2016 Washington County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, ME went without power for an average of 17.4 hours, a total of 263K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 15 Maine counties and 174th 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 Washington 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 | September 9, 2016 21:30 | September 12, 2016 11:00 | 2d 13h | 11,409 | 13K |
| 2 | December 24, 2016 14:45 | December 24, 2016 19:45 | 5h | 9,129 | 14K |
| 3 | February 17, 2016 00:15 | February 18, 2016 22:15 | 1d 22h | 5,142 | 52K |
| 4 | January 29, 2016 10:30 | January 30, 2016 01:00 | 14h 30m | 4,046 | 24K |
| 5 | April 8, 2016 03:00 | April 11, 2016 10:45 | 3d 7h | 3,911 | 40K |
| 6 | September 6, 2016 20:15 | September 7, 2016 03:15 | 7h | 3,331 | 4,647 |
| 7 | January 10, 2016 23:00 | January 13, 2016 02:15 | 2d 3h | 3,217 | 42K |
| 8 | March 2, 2016 12:30 | March 2, 2016 21:30 | 9h | 2,388 | 3,354 |
| 9 | December 30, 2016 03:15 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 21h | 2,385 | 20K |
| 10 | May 2, 2016 21:30 | May 3, 2016 16:15 | 18h 45m | 1,675 | 5,767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 64 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Versant Power | 2016 | 17.1 hrs | 4.28 | 8.2 hrs | 3.46 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2016 | 11.6 hrs | 6.58 | 9.3 hrs | 5.54 |
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 ÷ 15,144 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county