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2024 Washington County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Washington County, ME went without power for an average of 22.8 hours, a total of 346K customer-hours (Maine average 38.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 16 Maine counties and 437th 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 Washington 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 | January 10, 2024 10:45 | January 13, 2024 02:15 | 2d 15h | 13,616 | 61K |
| 2 | September 14, 2024 18:00 | September 14, 2024 21:15 | 3h 15m | 10,121 | 19K |
| 3 | February 5, 2024 06:15 | February 5, 2024 08:15 | 2h | 6,333 | 7,115 |
| 4 | April 4, 2024 10:30 | April 6, 2024 01:00 | 1d 14h | 5,986 | 58K |
| 5 | December 12, 2024 01:00 | December 13, 2024 03:45 | 1d 2h | 4,604 | 50K |
| 6 | October 12, 2024 14:00 | October 13, 2024 22:00 | 1d 8h | 4,591 | 26K |
| 7 | December 5, 2024 09:30 | December 6, 2024 00:00 | 14h 30m | 3,305 | 7,125 |
| 8 | April 8, 2024 17:30 | April 8, 2024 18:15 | 45m | 2,954 | 1,513 |
| 9 | March 10, 2024 16:15 | March 12, 2024 01:00 | 1d 8h | 2,758 | 24K |
| 10 | October 9, 2024 09:15 | October 9, 2024 22:45 | 13h 30m | 2,448 | 4,387 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 63 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Washington 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 |
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 ÷ 15,144 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county