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2024 Knox County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Knox County, ME went without power for an average of 36.3 hours, a total of 557K customer-hours (Maine average 38.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 16 Maine counties and 270th 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 Knox 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 | April 4, 2024 07:45 | April 8, 2024 08:15 | 4d | 11,265 | 267K |
| 2 | December 16, 2024 18:15 | December 16, 2024 19:30 | 1h 15m | 5,625 | 6,256 |
| 3 | March 23, 2024 23:00 | March 26, 2024 20:15 | 2d 21h | 5,446 | 116K |
| 4 | January 10, 2024 03:15 | January 12, 2024 15:45 | 2d 12h | 5,433 | 43K |
| 5 | August 4, 2024 13:30 | August 4, 2024 20:45 | 7h 15m | 3,132 | 6,163 |
| 6 | November 19, 2024 21:00 | November 20, 2024 01:30 | 4h 30m | 2,625 | 5,228 |
| 7 | December 14, 2024 07:15 | December 14, 2024 09:45 | 2h 30m | 2,624 | 1,993 |
| 8 | April 8, 2024 14:00 | April 8, 2024 19:15 | 5h 15m | 2,619 | 1,354 |
| 9 | May 6, 2024 04:45 | May 6, 2024 07:00 | 2h 15m | 2,532 | 1,268 |
| 10 | October 17, 2024 12:30 | October 17, 2024 18:30 | 6h | 2,231 | 1,982 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 76 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Knox 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2024 | 31.6 hrs | 3.37 | 3.6 hrs | 1.83 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/knox-county