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2017 Cumberland County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cumberland County, ME went without power for an average of 28.5 hours, a total of 6.5M customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 16 Maine counties and 188th 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 Cumberland 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 30, 2017 02:00 | November 5, 2017 04:00 | 6d 2h | 109,526 | 5.6M |
| 2 | February 15, 2017 23:30 | February 18, 2017 02:45 | 2d 3h | 10,836 | 217K |
| 3 | November 10, 2017 10:15 | November 12, 2017 03:00 | 1d 16h | 8,706 | 44K |
| 4 | September 15, 2017 07:15 | September 15, 2017 10:15 | 3h | 7,521 | 16K |
| 5 | July 15, 2017 09:00 | July 15, 2017 16:15 | 7h 15m | 6,585 | 7,826 |
| 6 | January 24, 2017 19:30 | January 25, 2017 17:15 | 21h 45m | 5,209 | 15K |
| 7 | May 8, 2017 22:45 | May 9, 2017 03:00 | 4h 15m | 4,883 | 3,646 |
| 8 | June 13, 2017 17:45 | June 13, 2017 20:00 | 2h 15m | 4,133 | 4,044 |
| 9 | May 18, 2017 12:15 | May 18, 2017 16:45 | 4h 30m | 4,006 | 11K |
| 10 | November 5, 2017 05:00 | November 8, 2017 23:00 | 3d 18h | 3,879 | 117K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 278 reached 100+ customers, 69 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Cumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2017 | 44.9 hrs | 2.73 | 3.4 hrs | 1.81 |
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 ÷ 227,401 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county