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2023 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 183K customer-hours (Maine average 38.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 16 Maine counties and 1598th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 1, 2023 22:15 | July 1, 2023 23:15 | 1h | 11,406 | 7,369 |
| 2 | December 18, 2023 15:45 | December 22, 2023 00:00 | 3d 8h | 6,272 | 64K |
| 3 | May 5, 2023 21:00 | May 5, 2023 23:30 | 2h 30m | 4,769 | 7,883 |
| 4 | December 12, 2023 07:45 | December 12, 2023 10:00 | 2h 15m | 3,111 | 1,386 |
| 5 | December 15, 2023 04:30 | December 15, 2023 11:30 | 7h | 2,878 | 5,711 |
| 6 | May 5, 2023 16:45 | May 5, 2023 18:45 | 2h | 2,504 | 5,008 |
| 7 | October 28, 2023 17:45 | October 29, 2023 00:45 | 7h | 2,214 | 4,444 |
| 8 | February 6, 2023 08:30 | February 6, 2023 16:15 | 7h 45m | 1,665 | 11K |
| 9 | July 7, 2023 18:00 | July 8, 2023 05:15 | 11h 15m | 1,491 | 3,624 |
| 10 | September 16, 2023 19:00 | September 17, 2023 01:00 | 6h | 1,458 | 3,456 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 69 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Aroostook County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 41.3 hrs | 3.91 | 5.0 hrs | 2.19 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2023 | 79.2 hrs | 11.37 | 41.3 hrs | 7.43 |
| Houlton Water Company | - | - | - | - | - |
| Van Buren Light & Power Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Maine's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 42,053 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. Aroostook County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aroostook County, ME annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/maine/aroostook-county