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2021 Lincoln County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, ME went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 267K customer-hours (Maine average 6.4 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 16 Maine counties and 706th 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 Lincoln 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 | October 31, 2021 03:30 | November 1, 2021 02:00 | 22h 30m | 4,260 | 13K |
| 2 | March 29, 2021 14:30 | March 30, 2021 23:15 | 1d 8h | 4,150 | 19K |
| 3 | February 7, 2021 21:30 | February 8, 2021 00:00 | 2h 30m | 2,652 | 5,304 |
| 4 | March 2, 2021 05:30 | March 4, 2021 22:45 | 2d 17h | 2,510 | 64K |
| 5 | May 31, 2021 03:00 | May 31, 2021 07:45 | 4h 45m | 2,444 | 3,062 |
| 6 | October 26, 2021 21:15 | October 28, 2021 22:30 | 2d 1h | 2,350 | 12K |
| 7 | November 12, 2021 19:00 | November 13, 2021 07:45 | 12h 45m | 1,560 | 4,459 |
| 8 | June 23, 2021 01:15 | June 23, 2021 07:30 | 6h 15m | 1,552 | 680 |
| 9 | July 30, 2021 04:45 | July 31, 2021 07:00 | 1d 2h | 1,492 | 12K |
| 10 | January 9, 2021 13:45 | January 9, 2021 21:00 | 7h 15m | 1,433 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 98 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 23,436 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county