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2018 Franklin County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, ME went without power for an average of 30.1 hours, a total of 619K customer-hours (Maine average 10.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 16 Maine counties and 186th 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 Franklin 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 | May 5, 2018 06:00 | May 7, 2018 13:45 | 2d 7h | 9,338 | 91K |
| 2 | November 3, 2018 22:00 | November 6, 2018 01:30 | 2d 3h | 6,962 | 160K |
| 3 | July 1, 2018 02:45 | July 1, 2018 23:15 | 20h 30m | 6,896 | 14K |
| 4 | October 16, 2018 05:45 | October 18, 2018 22:30 | 2d 16h | 6,268 | 114K |
| 5 | January 5, 2018 22:00 | January 6, 2018 12:45 | 14h 45m | 3,339 | 12K |
| 6 | November 10, 2018 15:00 | November 12, 2018 18:15 | 2d 3h | 3,337 | 42K |
| 7 | November 10, 2018 05:45 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 6h | 3,048 | 11K |
| 8 | April 16, 2018 09:30 | April 16, 2018 15:30 | 6h | 2,503 | 11K |
| 9 | June 10, 2018 07:30 | June 10, 2018 07:45 | 15m | 2,498 | 625 |
| 10 | January 23, 2018 18:30 | January 25, 2018 09:45 | 1d 15h | 2,238 | 30K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 80 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2018 | 10.6 hrs | 2.64 | 3.9 hrs | 1.85 |
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 ÷ 20,532 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county