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2020 Washington County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, ME went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 249K customer-hours (Maine average 36.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 16 Maine counties and 508th 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 Washington 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 | June 4, 2020 22:00 | June 5, 2020 01:45 | 3h 45m | 9,757 | 17K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 18:45 | April 16, 2020 00:45 | 2d 6h | 8,270 | 100K |
| 3 | April 10, 2020 00:00 | April 12, 2020 00:00 | 2d | 3,049 | 32K |
| 4 | December 1, 2020 03:00 | December 3, 2020 00:15 | 1d 21h | 2,668 | 16K |
| 5 | December 22, 2020 16:00 | December 22, 2020 21:30 | 5h 30m | 2,004 | 6,354 |
| 6 | November 2, 2020 18:45 | November 3, 2020 02:15 | 7h 30m | 1,782 | 7,994 |
| 7 | August 7, 2020 02:30 | August 7, 2020 16:30 | 14h | 1,770 | 19K |
| 8 | May 28, 2020 17:30 | May 28, 2020 21:30 | 4h | 1,593 | 1,994 |
| 9 | February 7, 2020 17:15 | February 7, 2020 20:30 | 3h 15m | 1,559 | 4,269 |
| 10 | February 27, 2020 14:15 | February 28, 2020 00:00 | 9h 45m | 1,138 | 3,389 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 51 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Washington 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 |
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 ÷ 15,144 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county