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2023 Oxford County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Oxford County, ME went without power for an average of 39.9 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Maine average 38.9 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 16 Maine counties and 153rd 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 Oxford 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 09:45 | December 24, 2023 14:45 | 6d 5h | 20,368 | 1.1M |
| 2 | December 3, 2023 23:30 | December 6, 2023 03:00 | 2d 3h | 10,496 | 153K |
| 3 | September 16, 2023 12:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 1d 7h | 4,792 | 52K |
| 4 | June 1, 2023 19:45 | June 2, 2023 03:45 | 8h | 3,598 | 3,475 |
| 5 | April 14, 2023 16:00 | April 14, 2023 21:00 | 5h | 2,941 | 8,815 |
| 6 | July 16, 2023 10:00 | July 17, 2023 03:30 | 17h 30m | 2,277 | 6,500 |
| 7 | February 3, 2023 17:15 | February 5, 2023 18:45 | 2d 1h | 2,211 | 15K |
| 8 | July 7, 2023 17:30 | July 7, 2023 21:45 | 4h 15m | 2,125 | 734 |
| 9 | June 13, 2023 17:30 | June 13, 2023 19:45 | 2h 15m | 2,076 | 2,214 |
| 10 | May 1, 2023 04:30 | May 2, 2023 21:30 | 1d 17h | 2,031 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 146 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Oxford 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 ÷ 38,205 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. Oxford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oxford 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/oxford-county