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2022 Cumberland County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cumberland County, ME went without power for an average of 13.9 hours, a total of 3.2M customer-hours (Maine average 22.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 16 Maine counties and 483rd 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 Cumberland 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 09:30 | December 29, 2022 02:15 | 5d 16h | 60,853 | 1.9M |
| 2 | October 14, 2022 00:00 | October 17, 2022 00:15 | 3d | 16,789 | 139K |
| 3 | April 19, 2022 05:45 | April 20, 2022 21:15 | 1d 15h | 11,580 | 67K |
| 4 | December 16, 2022 19:00 | December 20, 2022 12:00 | 3d 17h | 10,844 | 462K |
| 5 | November 30, 2022 19:00 | December 3, 2022 04:45 | 2d 9h | 10,075 | 104K |
| 6 | July 21, 2022 09:45 | July 24, 2022 03:45 | 2d 18h | 7,456 | 56K |
| 7 | July 12, 2022 11:45 | July 14, 2022 10:30 | 1d 22h | 4,930 | 30K |
| 8 | September 19, 2022 22:15 | September 20, 2022 07:45 | 9h 30m | 4,166 | 9,480 |
| 9 | June 2, 2022 09:45 | June 2, 2022 19:15 | 9h 30m | 4,034 | 4,115 |
| 10 | May 3, 2022 03:15 | May 3, 2022 04:30 | 1h 15m | 4,015 | 1,007 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 225 reached 100+ customers, 72 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Cumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2022 | 14.3 hrs | 2.77 | 2.9 hrs | 1.71 |
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 ÷ 227,401 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland 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/cumberland-county