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2017 Washington County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, ME went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 16 Maine counties and 625th 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 Washington 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 | March 14, 2017 22:15 | March 16, 2017 06:15 | 1d 8h | 5,045 | 61K |
| 2 | August 13, 2017 19:30 | August 14, 2017 06:30 | 11h | 2,353 | 4,584 |
| 3 | January 10, 2017 18:00 | January 10, 2017 22:00 | 4h | 2,039 | 8,156 |
| 4 | January 24, 2017 14:30 | January 24, 2017 21:00 | 6h 30m | 1,845 | 2,459 |
| 5 | November 22, 2017 14:00 | November 22, 2017 22:00 | 8h | 1,605 | 3,220 |
| 6 | March 17, 2017 11:00 | March 17, 2017 12:45 | 1h 45m | 1,602 | 2,804 |
| 7 | March 22, 2017 21:15 | March 23, 2017 03:15 | 6h | 1,579 | 2,393 |
| 8 | May 16, 2017 13:00 | May 16, 2017 13:45 | 45m | 1,516 | 1,000 |
| 9 | October 16, 2017 12:30 | October 16, 2017 20:30 | 8h | 1,248 | 718 |
| 10 | November 28, 2017 10:30 | November 28, 2017 11:00 | 30m | 1,234 | 349 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 48 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Washington 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 |
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 ÷ 15,144 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county