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2022 Oxford County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Oxford County, ME went without power for an average of 55.2 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (Maine average 22.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 16 Maine counties and 64th 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 Oxford 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 16, 2022 21:45 | December 20, 2022 12:00 | 3d 14h | 25,494 | 1.2M |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 09:30 | December 30, 2022 02:00 | 6d 16h | 15,647 | 576K |
| 3 | March 8, 2022 03:30 | March 9, 2022 02:00 | 22h 30m | 5,327 | 20K |
| 4 | August 28, 2022 01:45 | August 28, 2022 06:45 | 5h | 3,501 | 5,283 |
| 5 | December 20, 2022 12:45 | December 22, 2022 13:45 | 2d 1h | 3,441 | 27K |
| 6 | February 23, 2022 01:30 | February 25, 2022 04:00 | 2d 2h | 3,121 | 44K |
| 7 | August 17, 2022 21:45 | August 18, 2022 20:45 | 23h | 2,758 | 7,246 |
| 8 | September 23, 2022 15:00 | September 25, 2022 01:30 | 1d 10h | 2,694 | 21K |
| 9 | July 11, 2022 10:30 | July 11, 2022 12:00 | 1h 30m | 2,499 | 3,417 |
| 10 | October 14, 2022 05:30 | October 16, 2022 01:30 | 1d 20h | 2,380 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 144 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Oxford 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 ÷ 38,205 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. Oxford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oxford 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/oxford-county