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2021 Franklin County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Franklin County, ME went without power for an average of 14.4 hours, a total of 297K customer-hours (Maine average 6.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 16 Maine counties and 584th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Franklin County, 2021
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 16, 2021 16:30 | April 16, 2021 18:30 | 2h | 7,411 | 12K |
| 2 | March 29, 2021 10:15 | March 30, 2021 21:15 | 1d 11h | 6,907 | 49K |
| 3 | March 2, 2021 03:15 | March 4, 2021 22:45 | 2d 19h | 4,495 | 75K |
| 4 | May 6, 2021 09:15 | May 6, 2021 12:30 | 3h 15m | 3,552 | 11K |
| 5 | September 10, 2021 03:00 | September 10, 2021 08:45 | 5h 45m | 3,165 | 16K |
| 6 | December 17, 2021 09:45 | December 18, 2021 06:30 | 20h 45m | 3,061 | 8,217 |
| 7 | December 3, 2021 11:00 | December 3, 2021 17:30 | 6h 30m | 2,959 | 1,790 |
| 8 | December 6, 2021 22:15 | December 7, 2021 23:45 | 1d 1h | 2,857 | 9,662 |
| 9 | December 28, 2021 14:45 | December 28, 2021 19:00 | 4h 15m | 2,608 | 3,764 |
| 10 | December 12, 2021 05:30 | December 12, 2021 20:30 | 15h | 2,469 | 7,763 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 95 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Franklin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 5.5 hrs | 2.48 | 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/maine/franklin-county