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2024 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 47.7 hours, a total of 486K customer-hours (Maine average 38.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 16 Maine counties and 215th 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 Piscataquis 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 | June 19, 2024 20:00 | June 21, 2024 12:30 | 1d 16h | 10,280 | 45K |
| 2 | March 21, 2024 07:30 | March 23, 2024 01:30 | 1d 18h | 6,919 | 83K |
| 3 | October 12, 2024 11:30 | October 14, 2024 22:45 | 2d 11h | 6,533 | 81K |
| 4 | November 29, 2024 00:00 | December 1, 2024 14:15 | 2d 14h | 6,321 | 157K |
| 5 | August 10, 2024 01:00 | August 10, 2024 19:30 | 18h 30m | 4,582 | 24K |
| 6 | April 10, 2024 18:30 | April 10, 2024 18:45 | 15m | 4,420 | 1,105 |
| 7 | December 30, 2024 18:30 | December 30, 2024 22:00 | 3h 30m | 4,305 | 8,987 |
| 8 | March 29, 2024 20:15 | March 30, 2024 03:15 | 7h | 3,742 | 1,561 |
| 9 | June 30, 2024 17:30 | July 1, 2024 02:45 | 9h 15m | 3,491 | 6,388 |
| 10 | December 11, 2024 22:30 | December 13, 2024 00:45 | 1d 2h | 3,464 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 69 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Piscataquis 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 |
| Versant Power | 2024 | 20.1 hrs | 4.38 | 8.0 hrs | 3.10 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/piscataquis-county