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2018 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 29.3 hours, a total of 299K customer-hours (Maine average 10.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 16 Maine counties and 190th 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 Piscataquis 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 08:30 | May 6, 2018 15:00 | 1d 6h | 5,521 | 28K |
| 2 | October 16, 2018 05:30 | October 17, 2018 18:30 | 1d 13h | 5,282 | 43K |
| 3 | November 3, 2018 21:45 | November 5, 2018 23:45 | 2d 2h | 4,829 | 73K |
| 4 | October 28, 2018 00:30 | October 28, 2018 23:00 | 22h 30m | 4,439 | 49K |
| 5 | January 28, 2018 16:30 | January 29, 2018 02:00 | 9h 30m | 4,304 | 6,522 |
| 6 | November 28, 2018 05:15 | November 28, 2018 07:30 | 2h 15m | 2,919 | 4,780 |
| 7 | January 12, 2018 16:30 | January 12, 2018 23:30 | 7h | 2,873 | 3,280 |
| 8 | October 18, 2018 13:30 | October 18, 2018 23:45 | 10h 15m | 2,522 | 3,106 |
| 9 | November 27, 2018 12:30 | November 27, 2018 14:45 | 2h 15m | 2,228 | 577 |
| 10 | May 15, 2018 16:15 | May 15, 2018 18:45 | 2h 30m | 2,223 | 1,126 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 76 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Piscataquis 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 ÷ 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, 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/piscataquis-county