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2022 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 493K customer-hours (Maine average 22.0 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 16 Maine counties and 599th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2022
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 23, 2022 17:00 | December 27, 2022 22:00 | 4d 5h | 23,323 | 286K |
| 2 | January 19, 2022 22:00 | January 19, 2022 23:30 | 1h 30m | 11,437 | 15K |
| 3 | July 23, 2022 17:00 | July 24, 2022 03:00 | 10h | 9,307 | 19K |
| 4 | April 19, 2022 14:00 | April 20, 2022 05:45 | 15h 45m | 5,726 | 13K |
| 5 | January 27, 2022 15:30 | January 27, 2022 22:00 | 6h 30m | 4,194 | 2,568 |
| 6 | November 7, 2022 16:45 | November 8, 2022 03:00 | 10h 15m | 3,423 | 9,930 |
| 7 | September 24, 2022 12:15 | September 25, 2022 02:15 | 14h | 2,913 | 10K |
| 8 | November 8, 2022 14:45 | November 9, 2022 03:15 | 12h 30m | 2,666 | 8,024 |
| 9 | July 29, 2022 17:15 | July 29, 2022 19:15 | 2h | 2,499 | 2,582 |
| 10 | July 19, 2022 19:00 | July 20, 2022 08:30 | 13h 30m | 2,373 | 7,729 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 106 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Aroostook County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 21.4 hrs | 3.31 | 5.4 hrs | 2.46 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2022 | 32.8 hrs | 10.50 | 15.9 hrs | 7.52 |
| Houlton Water Company | - | - | - | - | - |
| Van Buren Light & Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 42,053 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. Aroostook County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aroostook County, ME annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/maine/aroostook-county