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2019 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 280K customer-hours (Maine average 6.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 16 Maine counties and 829th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2019
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 1, 2019 02:00 | November 5, 2019 00:00 | 3d 22h | 9,427 | 189K |
| 2 | April 19, 2019 13:30 | April 19, 2019 15:30 | 2h | 3,120 | 3,335 |
| 3 | April 4, 2019 08:45 | April 5, 2019 04:30 | 19h 45m | 2,670 | 14K |
| 4 | August 9, 2019 19:15 | August 10, 2019 00:00 | 4h 45m | 2,471 | 1,525 |
| 5 | March 23, 2019 15:45 | March 23, 2019 18:00 | 2h 15m | 2,394 | 2,090 |
| 6 | March 22, 2019 22:30 | March 23, 2019 04:30 | 6h | 1,793 | 3,591 |
| 7 | July 31, 2019 05:45 | July 31, 2019 12:30 | 6h 45m | 1,612 | 1,627 |
| 8 | July 31, 2019 16:00 | July 31, 2019 22:30 | 6h 30m | 1,503 | 5,264 |
| 9 | August 21, 2019 12:30 | August 21, 2019 13:00 | 30m | 1,401 | 641 |
| 10 | December 15, 2019 11:30 | December 15, 2019 17:30 | 6h | 1,309 | 3,932 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 78 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 Aroostook County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/maine/aroostook-county