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2019 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 26.1 hours, a total of 266K customer-hours (Maine average 6.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 16 Maine counties and 148th 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 Piscataquis 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 28, 2019 05:15 | November 30, 2019 19:45 | 2d 14h | 6,382 | 101K |
| 2 | November 1, 2019 00:15 | November 4, 2019 18:45 | 3d 18h | 3,975 | 60K |
| 3 | January 9, 2019 14:45 | January 11, 2019 15:30 | 2d | 3,727 | 15K |
| 4 | March 16, 2019 19:15 | March 16, 2019 20:15 | 1h | 2,957 | 2,403 |
| 5 | March 29, 2019 04:15 | March 29, 2019 05:00 | 45m | 2,908 | 2,071 |
| 6 | February 25, 2019 23:00 | February 26, 2019 20:00 | 21h | 2,905 | 5,047 |
| 7 | March 5, 2019 07:15 | March 5, 2019 09:00 | 1h 45m | 2,228 | 3,345 |
| 8 | April 4, 2019 01:30 | April 5, 2019 17:45 | 1d 16h | 1,605 | 16K |
| 9 | August 9, 2019 12:30 | August 9, 2019 13:30 | 1h | 1,601 | 476 |
| 10 | October 17, 2019 09:00 | October 18, 2019 18:30 | 1d 9h | 1,392 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 73 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 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 |
| 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 2019; 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, 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/piscataquis-county