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2023 Franklin County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Franklin County, ME went without power for an average of 44.2 hours, a total of 908K customer-hours (Maine average 38.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 16 Maine counties and 131st 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 Franklin 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 | December 18, 2023 11:15 | December 24, 2023 20:00 | 6d 8h | 12,821 | 666K |
| 2 | September 16, 2023 09:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 1d 10h | 4,641 | 43K |
| 3 | December 3, 2023 18:30 | December 6, 2023 00:15 | 2d 5h | 3,945 | 41K |
| 4 | August 13, 2023 18:30 | August 14, 2023 02:30 | 8h | 3,926 | 8,384 |
| 5 | January 1, 2023 08:30 | January 1, 2023 17:45 | 9h 15m | 3,248 | 14K |
| 6 | November 22, 2023 17:00 | November 22, 2023 21:15 | 4h 15m | 2,751 | 2,125 |
| 7 | March 14, 2023 22:45 | March 15, 2023 17:00 | 18h 15m | 2,721 | 7,588 |
| 8 | February 3, 2023 17:15 | February 5, 2023 03:00 | 1d 9h | 2,289 | 19K |
| 9 | July 17, 2023 17:30 | July 17, 2023 19:00 | 1h 30m | 2,226 | 2,760 |
| 10 | November 7, 2023 15:45 | November 7, 2023 17:00 | 1h 15m | 2,226 | 2,683 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 92 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2023 | 27.6 hrs | 3.01 | 3.2 hrs | 1.82 |
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 ÷ 20,532 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county