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2022 Washington County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Washington County, ME went without power for an average of 24.4 hours, a total of 370K customer-hours (Maine average 22.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 16 Maine counties and 258th 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 Washington 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 13:00 | December 31, 2022 00:15 | 7d 11h | 10,230 | 257K |
| 2 | October 25, 2022 07:30 | October 25, 2022 12:15 | 4h 45m | 3,138 | 5,276 |
| 3 | January 29, 2022 16:45 | January 30, 2022 01:45 | 9h | 2,990 | 4,011 |
| 4 | April 28, 2022 20:30 | April 28, 2022 22:00 | 1h 30m | 2,806 | 3,441 |
| 5 | November 30, 2022 09:00 | November 30, 2022 13:15 | 4h 15m | 2,414 | 9,061 |
| 6 | November 30, 2022 22:45 | December 3, 2022 00:45 | 2d 2h | 2,068 | 31K |
| 7 | April 26, 2022 12:00 | April 26, 2022 20:00 | 8h | 2,003 | 1,125 |
| 8 | January 15, 2022 02:30 | January 15, 2022 20:00 | 17h 30m | 1,870 | 3,954 |
| 9 | September 7, 2022 13:00 | September 7, 2022 21:30 | 8h 30m | 1,569 | 4,320 |
| 10 | April 22, 2022 11:45 | April 22, 2022 14:00 | 2h 15m | 1,535 | 794 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 57 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Versant Power | 2022 | 21.4 hrs | 3.31 | 5.4 hrs | 2.46 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2022 | 32.8 hrs | 10.50 | 15.9 hrs | 7.52 |
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 ÷ 15,144 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county