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2018 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 328K customer-hours (Maine average 10.9 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 16 Maine counties and 708th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 4, 2018 00:15 | November 5, 2018 23:30 | 1d 23h | 10,354 | 133K |
| 2 | July 23, 2018 14:15 | July 23, 2018 15:00 | 45m | 10,300 | 7,198 |
| 3 | May 18, 2018 13:00 | May 18, 2018 14:30 | 1h 30m | 3,868 | 5,802 |
| 4 | May 25, 2018 11:30 | May 25, 2018 15:45 | 4h 15m | 2,903 | 1,690 |
| 5 | November 14, 2018 05:00 | November 14, 2018 12:45 | 7h 45m | 2,806 | 7,262 |
| 6 | May 5, 2018 09:00 | May 6, 2018 05:00 | 20h | 2,438 | 8,260 |
| 7 | October 16, 2018 06:30 | October 17, 2018 03:00 | 20h 30m | 2,430 | 14K |
| 8 | July 2, 2018 10:00 | July 2, 2018 14:15 | 4h 15m | 2,343 | 6,452 |
| 9 | November 11, 2018 03:30 | November 12, 2018 01:15 | 21h 45m | 2,263 | 18K |
| 10 | September 11, 2018 20:00 | September 12, 2018 06:45 | 10h 45m | 2,031 | 7,841 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 91 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Aroostook County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 13.0 hrs | 3.13 | 6.6 hrs | 2.52 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2018 | 12.1 hrs | 6.45 | 7.9 hrs | 4.96 |
| Houlton Water Company | - | - | - | - | - |
| Van Buren Light & Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 96% of Maine's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 42,053 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. Aroostook County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aroostook County, ME annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/maine/aroostook-county