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2020 Franklin County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Franklin County, ME went without power for an average of 82.0 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Maine average 36.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 16 Maine counties and 88th 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 Franklin 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 | April 9, 2020 20:45 | April 16, 2020 20:30 | 6d 23h | 17,176 | 689K |
| 2 | December 5, 2020 20:00 | December 10, 2020 10:00 | 4d 14h | 13,868 | 618K |
| 3 | September 30, 2020 10:15 | October 2, 2020 19:00 | 2d 8h | 7,433 | 99K |
| 4 | July 8, 2020 20:00 | July 10, 2020 19:15 | 1d 23h | 4,968 | 64K |
| 5 | October 10, 2020 21:45 | October 11, 2020 02:45 | 5h | 3,798 | 9,072 |
| 6 | November 2, 2020 16:30 | November 4, 2020 00:00 | 1d 7h | 3,357 | 10K |
| 7 | August 5, 2020 00:00 | August 6, 2020 20:00 | 1d 20h | 3,066 | 41K |
| 8 | October 8, 2020 15:30 | October 9, 2020 02:00 | 10h 30m | 2,436 | 4,602 |
| 9 | September 23, 2020 16:15 | September 24, 2020 01:00 | 8h 45m | 2,342 | 1,422 |
| 10 | October 14, 2020 08:30 | October 14, 2020 10:00 | 1h 30m | 2,342 | 3,513 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 74 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2020 | 29.6 hrs | 3.74 | 3.7 hrs | 2.04 |
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 ÷ 20,532 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county