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2025 Knox County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Knox County, ME went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 204K customer-hours (Maine average 6.3 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 16 Maine counties and 579th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Knox County, 2025
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 26, 2025 08:15 | December 26, 2025 11:45 | 3h 30m | 16,222 | 39K |
| 2 | December 19, 2025 17:30 | December 21, 2025 21:00 | 2d 3h | 6,744 | 54K |
| 3 | May 22, 2025 18:15 | May 22, 2025 21:45 | 3h 30m | 6,204 | 11K |
| 4 | May 31, 2025 10:45 | May 31, 2025 13:30 | 2h 45m | 3,364 | 864 |
| 5 | January 20, 2025 17:00 | January 20, 2025 20:00 | 3h | 3,349 | 10K |
| 6 | May 19, 2025 07:00 | May 19, 2025 08:30 | 1h 30m | 3,059 | 4,589 |
| 7 | June 27, 2025 21:45 | June 28, 2025 01:00 | 3h 15m | 2,114 | 6,691 |
| 8 | July 20, 2025 18:45 | July 21, 2025 03:00 | 8h 15m | 2,095 | 2,657 |
| 9 | December 5, 2025 00:00 | December 5, 2025 22:00 | 22h | 1,861 | 9,229 |
| 10 | June 20, 2025 18:00 | June 21, 2025 18:30 | 1d | 1,561 | 4,600 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 69 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 Knox County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/maine/knox-county