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2022 Hancock County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Hancock County, ME went without power for an average of 53.8 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Maine average 22.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 16 Maine counties and 69th 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 Hancock 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 12:45 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 8d 11h | 26,662 | 1.2M |
| 2 | October 17, 2022 20:00 | October 17, 2022 20:30 | 30m | 7,906 | 2,178 |
| 3 | January 17, 2022 14:30 | January 19, 2022 04:15 | 1d 13h | 6,837 | 28K |
| 4 | November 30, 2022 18:45 | December 3, 2022 01:30 | 2d 6h | 6,804 | 89K |
| 5 | July 29, 2022 12:30 | July 30, 2022 00:00 | 11h 30m | 6,335 | 8,499 |
| 6 | February 17, 2022 20:15 | February 17, 2022 21:30 | 1h 15m | 5,383 | 5,575 |
| 7 | November 28, 2022 02:15 | November 28, 2022 07:00 | 4h 45m | 4,710 | 9,731 |
| 8 | February 4, 2022 13:15 | February 4, 2022 19:15 | 6h | 4,635 | 8,428 |
| 9 | May 15, 2022 16:30 | May 15, 2022 17:45 | 1h 15m | 4,231 | 5,288 |
| 10 | December 3, 2022 16:30 | December 5, 2022 00:00 | 1d 7h | 4,227 | 30K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 110 reached 100+ customers, 41 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Hancock 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 |
| Versant Power | 2022 | 21.4 hrs | 3.31 | 5.4 hrs | 2.46 |
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 ÷ 31,079 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock 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/hancock-county