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2018 Hancock County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hancock County, ME went without power for an average of 23.9 hours, a total of 744K customer-hours (Maine average 10.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 16 Maine counties and 237th 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 Hancock 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 3, 2018 11:15 | November 6, 2018 03:15 | 2d 16h | 15,786 | 326K |
| 2 | October 3, 2018 10:30 | October 3, 2018 17:30 | 7h | 9,220 | 7,425 |
| 3 | April 25, 2018 20:00 | April 25, 2018 20:30 | 30m | 6,023 | 1,510 |
| 4 | October 16, 2018 07:15 | October 18, 2018 00:15 | 1d 17h | 5,515 | 43K |
| 5 | March 13, 2018 14:00 | March 16, 2018 02:00 | 2d 12h | 5,463 | 75K |
| 6 | October 27, 2018 14:30 | October 29, 2018 02:15 | 1d 11h | 5,150 | 35K |
| 7 | April 13, 2018 17:30 | April 14, 2018 01:00 | 7h 30m | 4,226 | 4,565 |
| 8 | April 12, 2018 13:00 | April 13, 2018 08:15 | 19h 15m | 4,157 | 2,703 |
| 9 | February 4, 2018 03:00 | February 4, 2018 14:45 | 11h 45m | 4,091 | 8,771 |
| 10 | December 18, 2018 11:30 | December 18, 2018 19:30 | 8h | 3,951 | 8,259 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 112 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 Hancock 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 |
| Versant Power | 2018 | 13.0 hrs | 3.13 | 6.6 hrs | 2.52 |
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 ÷ 31,079 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county