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2020 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 356K customer-hours (Maine average 36.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 16 Maine counties and 908th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 17, 2020 17:30 | December 18, 2020 02:45 | 9h 15m | 24,071 | 77K |
| 2 | October 10, 2020 19:30 | October 10, 2020 22:15 | 2h 45m | 11,398 | 17K |
| 3 | December 21, 2020 18:30 | December 21, 2020 22:30 | 4h | 10,768 | 17K |
| 4 | December 5, 2020 21:30 | December 9, 2020 14:30 | 3d 17h | 5,488 | 58K |
| 5 | December 1, 2020 01:15 | December 1, 2020 16:00 | 14h 45m | 4,816 | 32K |
| 6 | September 30, 2020 14:00 | October 2, 2020 01:00 | 1d 11h | 4,772 | 51K |
| 7 | August 5, 2020 05:45 | August 5, 2020 18:00 | 12h 15m | 2,209 | 5,190 |
| 8 | July 27, 2020 08:30 | July 27, 2020 09:15 | 45m | 1,798 | 899 |
| 9 | October 17, 2020 09:00 | October 17, 2020 12:00 | 3h | 1,795 | 2,248 |
| 10 | April 20, 2020 09:00 | April 20, 2020 10:30 | 1h 30m | 1,345 | 2,017 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 82 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 26.7 hrs | 4.11 | 5.3 hrs | 2.40 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2020 | 14.8 hrs | 6.80 | 7.4 hrs | 2.04 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/maine/aroostook-county