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2022 Lincoln County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lincoln County, ME went without power for an average of 35.6 hours, a total of 834K customer-hours (Maine average 22.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 16 Maine counties and 135th 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 Lincoln 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 03:00 | 5d 17h | 15,863 | 540K |
| 2 | February 23, 2022 00:15 | February 24, 2022 17:00 | 1d 16h | 5,212 | 32K |
| 3 | April 19, 2022 10:30 | April 20, 2022 00:15 | 13h 45m | 4,814 | 18K |
| 4 | October 14, 2022 04:15 | October 17, 2022 18:00 | 3d 13h | 3,852 | 51K |
| 5 | May 24, 2022 01:00 | May 24, 2022 16:30 | 15h 30m | 3,825 | 8,015 |
| 6 | March 27, 2022 17:15 | March 28, 2022 13:30 | 20h 15m | 3,730 | 1,885 |
| 7 | December 3, 2022 13:30 | December 4, 2022 04:45 | 15h 15m | 3,540 | 5,640 |
| 8 | September 23, 2022 09:15 | September 25, 2022 00:00 | 1d 14h | 2,465 | 10K |
| 9 | January 9, 2022 15:30 | January 10, 2022 08:45 | 17h 15m | 2,324 | 6,953 |
| 10 | November 30, 2022 18:45 | December 2, 2022 19:15 | 2d | 2,125 | 41K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 97 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 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, 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/lincoln-county