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2017 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 63.6 hours, a total of 648K customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 16 Maine counties and 37th 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 Piscataquis 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 05:00 | November 5, 2017 00:15 | 5d 19h | 25,858 | 387K |
| 2 | January 13, 2017 11:30 | January 14, 2017 03:45 | 16h 15m | 5,285 | 24K |
| 3 | June 27, 2017 13:45 | June 27, 2017 15:30 | 1h 45m | 4,389 | 2,233 |
| 4 | March 8, 2017 06:45 | March 8, 2017 14:45 | 8h | 3,690 | 18K |
| 5 | August 27, 2017 13:30 | August 27, 2017 14:45 | 1h 15m | 3,648 | 4,560 |
| 6 | November 10, 2017 14:15 | November 11, 2017 15:15 | 1d 1h | 2,916 | 12K |
| 7 | September 14, 2017 17:00 | September 14, 2017 22:00 | 5h | 2,777 | 5,220 |
| 8 | April 29, 2017 21:00 | April 30, 2017 14:45 | 17h 45m | 2,700 | 5,682 |
| 9 | August 11, 2017 14:30 | August 11, 2017 15:00 | 30m | 2,674 | 736 |
| 10 | January 11, 2017 05:30 | January 11, 2017 21:30 | 16h | 2,432 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 137 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Piscataquis 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 ÷ 10,203 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. Piscataquis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Piscataquis 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/piscataquis-county