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2018 Waldo County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Waldo County, ME went without power for an average of 11.3 hours, a total of 256K customer-hours (Maine average 10.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 16 Maine counties and 488th 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 Waldo 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 | October 16, 2018 05:00 | October 17, 2018 12:15 | 1d 7h | 6,652 | 30K |
| 2 | November 3, 2018 21:00 | November 5, 2018 22:00 | 2d 1h | 4,840 | 107K |
| 3 | August 16, 2018 01:00 | August 16, 2018 18:00 | 17h | 4,581 | 7,642 |
| 4 | July 4, 2018 19:15 | July 4, 2018 22:00 | 2h 45m | 4,546 | 11K |
| 5 | March 14, 2018 02:30 | March 15, 2018 18:45 | 1d 16h | 2,849 | 7,849 |
| 6 | October 18, 2018 14:15 | October 18, 2018 22:30 | 8h 15m | 2,821 | 3,275 |
| 7 | February 20, 2018 05:45 | February 20, 2018 09:00 | 3h 15m | 2,228 | 5,572 |
| 8 | October 27, 2018 22:15 | October 28, 2018 05:30 | 7h 15m | 1,786 | 3,252 |
| 9 | October 20, 2018 06:45 | October 20, 2018 10:45 | 4h | 1,679 | 3,360 |
| 10 | May 5, 2018 08:15 | May 5, 2018 19:45 | 11h 30m | 1,400 | 4,495 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 72 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Waldo 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 ÷ 22,684 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. Waldo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waldo 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/waldo-county