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2023 Knox County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Knox County, ME went without power for an average of 56.6 hours, a total of 868K customer-hours (Maine average 38.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 16 Maine counties and 87th 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 Knox 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 | March 14, 2023 19:15 | March 17, 2023 18:00 | 2d 22h | 16,556 | 291K |
| 2 | July 24, 2023 13:30 | July 24, 2023 20:00 | 6h 30m | 15,904 | 19K |
| 3 | December 18, 2023 13:30 | December 23, 2023 15:30 | 5d 2h | 9,040 | 227K |
| 4 | May 1, 2023 02:45 | May 2, 2023 15:00 | 1d 12h | 7,796 | 55K |
| 5 | September 16, 2023 08:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 1d 11h | 7,640 | 155K |
| 6 | October 22, 2023 14:00 | October 22, 2023 22:00 | 8h | 3,504 | 12K |
| 7 | April 10, 2023 01:00 | April 10, 2023 02:30 | 1h 30m | 3,322 | 4,983 |
| 8 | November 27, 2023 09:45 | November 28, 2023 17:45 | 1d 8h | 2,832 | 12K |
| 9 | August 1, 2023 14:45 | August 1, 2023 20:15 | 5h 30m | 2,610 | 9,785 |
| 10 | March 29, 2023 00:00 | March 29, 2023 05:45 | 5h 45m | 1,788 | 2,134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 82 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Knox 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 |
| Fox Islands Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Matinicus Plantation Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,343 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county