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2020 Hancock County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hancock County, ME went without power for an average of 45.8 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Maine average 36.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 16 Maine counties and 181st 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 Hancock 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 23:00 | April 16, 2020 23:15 | 7d | 21,854 | 907K |
| 2 | November 30, 2020 22:00 | December 3, 2020 18:30 | 2d 20h | 8,072 | 146K |
| 3 | September 4, 2020 07:30 | September 4, 2020 09:00 | 1h 30m | 6,227 | 8,844 |
| 4 | September 29, 2020 23:30 | October 2, 2020 19:45 | 2d 20h | 5,641 | 62K |
| 5 | August 24, 2020 22:15 | August 25, 2020 01:00 | 2h 45m | 5,336 | 12K |
| 6 | February 27, 2020 13:45 | February 28, 2020 01:30 | 11h 45m | 4,445 | 12K |
| 7 | February 13, 2020 14:00 | February 13, 2020 16:30 | 2h 30m | 4,281 | 8,434 |
| 8 | December 4, 2020 11:30 | December 4, 2020 23:15 | 11h 45m | 4,210 | 3,033 |
| 9 | June 30, 2020 07:30 | June 30, 2020 18:00 | 10h 30m | 4,191 | 24K |
| 10 | March 13, 2020 17:00 | March 13, 2020 22:45 | 5h 45m | 3,728 | 4,778 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 107 reached 100+ customers, 29 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Hancock 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 |
| Versant Power | 2020 | 26.7 hrs | 4.11 | 5.3 hrs | 2.40 |
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 ÷ 31,079 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county