County annual report · FIPS 23003
2017 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 214K customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 16 Maine counties and 949th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 10, 2017 21:30 | October 11, 2017 05:45 | 8h 15m | 13,118 | 81K |
| 2 | August 29, 2017 13:15 | August 29, 2017 20:15 | 7h | 11,167 | 14K |
| 3 | October 30, 2017 11:15 | November 1, 2017 02:30 | 1d 15h | 10,079 | 37K |
| 4 | February 24, 2017 00:00 | February 24, 2017 02:30 | 2h 30m | 2,111 | 2,850 |
| 5 | August 13, 2017 15:45 | August 14, 2017 00:30 | 8h 45m | 1,989 | 4,097 |
| 6 | April 29, 2017 22:00 | April 30, 2017 07:00 | 9h | 1,688 | 8,200 |
| 7 | April 16, 2017 12:30 | April 16, 2017 19:15 | 6h 45m | 1,616 | 3,699 |
| 8 | July 11, 2017 18:15 | July 11, 2017 19:00 | 45m | 1,512 | 381 |
| 9 | June 30, 2017 13:45 | June 30, 2017 18:30 | 4h 45m | 1,508 | 1,511 |
| 10 | July 7, 2017 22:15 | July 8, 2017 05:45 | 7h 30m | 1,494 | 703 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 61 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Aroostook County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 31.6 hrs | 3.05 | 6.1 hrs | 2.23 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2017 | 5.7 hrs | 3.90 | 5.7 hrs | 3.90 |
| Houlton Water Company | - | - | - | - | - |
| Van Buren Light & Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 42,053 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. Aroostook County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aroostook County, ME annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/maine/aroostook-county