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2019 Knox County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Knox County, ME went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Maine average 6.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 16 Maine counties and 1886th 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 Knox 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 | February 25, 2019 21:00 | February 26, 2019 20:00 | 23h | 3,294 | 5,458 |
| 2 | June 2, 2019 16:45 | June 2, 2019 17:00 | 15m | 3,233 | 808 |
| 3 | March 15, 2019 19:15 | March 15, 2019 19:30 | 15m | 1,738 | 435 |
| 4 | February 13, 2019 03:45 | February 13, 2019 06:15 | 2h 30m | 1,548 | 3,870 |
| 5 | April 9, 2019 01:00 | April 9, 2019 02:30 | 1h 30m | 1,238 | 1,784 |
| 6 | April 9, 2019 14:00 | April 9, 2019 14:15 | 15m | 1,234 | 309 |
| 7 | April 23, 2019 10:00 | April 23, 2019 11:30 | 1h 30m | 954 | 618 |
| 8 | December 10, 2019 10:00 | December 10, 2019 14:30 | 4h 30m | 950 | 265 |
| 9 | April 8, 2019 20:15 | April 8, 2019 23:45 | 3h 30m | 897 | 1,348 |
| 10 | January 24, 2019 20:00 | January 25, 2019 21:15 | 1d 1h | 703 | 2,314 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 35 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Knox 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2018 | 10.6 hrs | 2.64 | 3.9 hrs | 1.85 |
| Fox Islands Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Matinicus Plantation Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,343 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county