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2024 Aroostook County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Aroostook County, ME went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 481K customer-hours (Maine average 38.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 16 Maine counties and 831st of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aroostook County, 2024
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 12, 2024 06:00 | December 13, 2024 06:30 | 1d | 24,386 | 277K |
| 2 | March 30, 2024 01:00 | April 2, 2024 19:00 | 3d 18h | 7,512 | 73K |
| 3 | August 25, 2024 17:30 | August 25, 2024 18:00 | 30m | 4,205 | 2,103 |
| 4 | October 12, 2024 12:30 | October 13, 2024 17:30 | 1d 5h | 3,669 | 15K |
| 5 | June 30, 2024 11:00 | July 1, 2024 02:30 | 15h 30m | 2,701 | 4,264 |
| 6 | December 6, 2024 17:00 | December 6, 2024 19:00 | 2h | 2,600 | 3,250 |
| 7 | February 29, 2024 06:00 | February 29, 2024 16:15 | 10h 15m | 1,942 | 9,321 |
| 8 | December 4, 2024 16:15 | December 4, 2024 23:30 | 7h 15m | 1,822 | 5,071 |
| 9 | November 29, 2024 02:30 | November 30, 2024 17:00 | 1d 14h | 1,635 | 13K |
| 10 | July 12, 2024 14:45 | July 12, 2024 17:30 | 2h 45m | 1,376 | 1,721 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 82 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 20.1 hrs | 4.38 | 8.0 hrs | 3.10 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2024 | 18.1 hrs | 8.00 | 12.3 hrs | 5.98 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/maine/aroostook-county