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2023 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 58.0 hours, a total of 591K customer-hours (Maine average 38.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 16 Maine counties and 81st 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 Piscataquis 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 14:15 | December 24, 2023 21:00 | 6d 6h | 9,628 | 426K |
| 2 | September 16, 2023 06:45 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 1d 12h | 5,024 | 58K |
| 3 | May 16, 2023 02:45 | May 16, 2023 05:00 | 2h 15m | 4,390 | 6,599 |
| 4 | April 7, 2023 11:45 | April 8, 2023 02:00 | 14h 15m | 3,410 | 4,649 |
| 5 | July 10, 2023 18:30 | July 10, 2023 21:30 | 3h | 3,152 | 3,161 |
| 6 | February 3, 2023 14:00 | February 4, 2023 20:45 | 1d 6h | 2,003 | 8,494 |
| 7 | November 27, 2023 10:00 | November 27, 2023 15:45 | 5h 45m | 1,451 | 1,817 |
| 8 | November 17, 2023 19:30 | November 18, 2023 00:00 | 4h 30m | 1,449 | 5,706 |
| 9 | May 18, 2023 18:00 | May 18, 2023 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,443 | 2,164 |
| 10 | August 6, 2023 16:15 | August 6, 2023 18:45 | 2h 30m | 1,437 | 3,226 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 75 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Piscataquis 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 |
| Versant Power | 2023 | 41.3 hrs | 3.91 | 5.0 hrs | 2.19 |
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 ÷ 10,203 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. Piscataquis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Piscataquis 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/piscataquis-county