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2022 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 27.6 hours, a total of 281K customer-hours (Maine average 22.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 16 Maine counties and 204th 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 Piscataquis 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 12:15 | December 26, 2022 22:30 | 3d 10h | 3,583 | 105K |
| 2 | July 12, 2022 22:45 | July 13, 2022 06:15 | 7h 30m | 3,171 | 18K |
| 3 | October 14, 2022 03:00 | October 15, 2022 22:15 | 1d 19h | 3,158 | 8,945 |
| 4 | August 8, 2022 21:00 | August 9, 2022 05:30 | 8h 30m | 3,140 | 12K |
| 5 | February 23, 2022 21:00 | February 25, 2022 18:30 | 1d 21h | 3,087 | 20K |
| 6 | May 15, 2022 23:45 | May 16, 2022 01:15 | 1h 30m | 3,082 | 4,051 |
| 7 | March 2, 2022 15:15 | March 2, 2022 17:15 | 2h | 3,076 | 4,605 |
| 8 | January 6, 2022 15:00 | January 6, 2022 17:00 | 2h | 3,054 | 5,341 |
| 9 | September 15, 2022 16:30 | September 15, 2022 23:30 | 7h | 2,482 | 10K |
| 10 | December 5, 2022 01:15 | December 5, 2022 02:45 | 1h 30m | 2,285 | 2,351 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 82 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Piscataquis 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 ÷ 10,203 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. Piscataquis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Piscataquis 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/piscataquis-county