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County annual report · FIPS 23017

2017 Oxford County, ME Power Outage Report

In 2017, customers in Oxford County, ME went without power for an average of 31.9 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 16 Maine counties and 159th of 2,786 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
31.9
38,205 customers
Customer-hours out
1.2M
Peak customers out
16,714
Outages ≥1,000 out
30
1 of 10,000+ · 510 total
Longest outage
6d 3h
began October 30, 2017
Rank in state
11th/16
159th of 2,786 US

Compared with ME, the US and 2016

Oxford County, ME average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2017Oxford County 31.9 hours, Maine average 37.7 hours, US average 7.4 hours, Oxford County, 2016 6.1 hoursOxford CountyOxford County31.9hMaine averageMaine average37.7hUS averageUS average7.4hOxford County, 2016Oxford County, 20166.1h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2017; last bar is this county in 2016.

Month by month

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Oxford County, ME customer-hours without power by month, 2017Jan 13K, Feb 8,587, Mar 44K, Apr 18K, May 18K, Jun 17K, Jul 44K, Aug 20K, Sep 17K, Oct 537K, Nov 423K, Dec 57K0200k400k600k13KJan8,587Feb44KMar18KApr18KMay17KJun44KJul20KAug17KSep537KOct423KNov57KDec
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Customer-hours; October was the worst month.

Oxford County year over year

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Oxford County, ME: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 3.2h; 2016: 6.1h; 2017: 31.9h; 2018: 25.9h, coverage 96%; 2019: 6.3h, coverage 96%; 2020: 50.5h, coverage 96%; 2021: 15.5h, coverage 96%; 2022: 55.2h, coverage 96%; 2023: 39.9h; 2024: 52.2h; 2025: 7.5h02040600%50%100%3.2h20156.1h201631.9h201725.9h20186.3h201950.5h202015.5h202155.2h202239.9h202352.2h20247.5h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Oxford County, 2017

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1October 30, 2017 00:45November 5, 2017 04:006d 3h16,714898K
2December 4, 2017 14:15December 5, 2017 02:1512h6,0787,489
3December 23, 2017 18:30December 24, 2017 21:451d 3h3,08442K
4June 24, 2017 09:45June 24, 2017 19:009h 15m2,7245,578
5May 4, 2017 03:30May 4, 2017 05:001h 30m2,6924,038
6July 19, 2017 02:15July 19, 2017 06:304h 15m2,5894,548
7May 18, 2017 18:15May 18, 2017 19:151h2,1661,304
8July 13, 2017 02:45July 13, 2017 08:155h 30m1,9672,994
9July 1, 2017 18:45July 3, 2017 05:151d 10h1,95627K
10August 29, 2017 18:15August 29, 2017 21:002h 45m1,9524,886

Outage episodes by size in 2017: 148 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Oxford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Central Maine Power Co201744.9 hrs2.733.4 hrs1.81

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 ÷ 38,205 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. Oxford County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oxford 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/oxford-county

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