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2020 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 127.5 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Maine average 36.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 16 Maine counties and 44th 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 Piscataquis 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 5, 2020 21:45 | December 10, 2020 23:30 | 5d 1h | 11,381 | 444K |
| 2 | April 9, 2020 21:15 | April 16, 2020 21:30 | 7d | 10,663 | 659K |
| 3 | May 9, 2020 16:00 | May 10, 2020 14:00 | 22h | 4,114 | 14K |
| 4 | July 13, 2020 18:45 | July 14, 2020 04:30 | 9h 45m | 3,505 | 7,871 |
| 5 | May 26, 2020 12:00 | May 26, 2020 23:00 | 11h | 3,165 | 6,299 |
| 6 | November 23, 2020 21:30 | November 24, 2020 15:00 | 17h 30m | 2,988 | 6,693 |
| 7 | June 6, 2020 17:45 | June 7, 2020 00:15 | 6h 30m | 2,958 | 17K |
| 8 | January 26, 2020 08:00 | January 26, 2020 15:00 | 7h | 2,951 | 7,701 |
| 9 | September 30, 2020 11:15 | October 2, 2020 19:15 | 2d 8h | 2,837 | 41K |
| 10 | December 1, 2020 00:30 | December 1, 2020 22:45 | 22h 15m | 2,651 | 8,265 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 84 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Piscataquis 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 ÷ 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, 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/piscataquis-county