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2017 Hancock County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hancock County, ME went without power for an average of 48.6 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 16 Maine counties and 77th 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 Hancock 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 02:45 | November 5, 2017 04:00 | 6d 1h | 32,670 | 1.2M |
| 2 | June 20, 2017 07:30 | June 20, 2017 10:00 | 2h 30m | 8,005 | 18K |
| 3 | June 28, 2017 11:45 | June 28, 2017 13:00 | 1h 15m | 4,441 | 3,580 |
| 4 | March 14, 2017 21:15 | March 16, 2017 20:45 | 1d 23h | 4,248 | 71K |
| 5 | September 3, 2017 21:30 | September 4, 2017 07:30 | 10h | 2,973 | 3,020 |
| 6 | November 22, 2017 02:00 | November 22, 2017 03:30 | 1h 30m | 2,878 | 2,202 |
| 7 | June 21, 2017 12:30 | June 21, 2017 19:15 | 6h 45m | 2,497 | 9,991 |
| 8 | October 25, 2017 10:00 | October 26, 2017 01:00 | 15h | 2,496 | 4,358 |
| 9 | October 22, 2017 03:15 | October 22, 2017 05:15 | 2h | 2,368 | 4,151 |
| 10 | April 9, 2017 11:30 | April 9, 2017 18:00 | 6h 30m | 2,231 | 8,910 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 97 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Hancock 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 |
| Versant Power | 2017 | 31.6 hrs | 3.05 | 6.1 hrs | 2.23 |
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 ÷ 31,079 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county