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2025 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 16.1 hours, a total of 165K customer-hours (Maine average 6.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 16 Maine counties and 461st 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 Piscataquis 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 19, 2025 16:30 | December 22, 2025 00:00 | 2d 7h | 4,171 | 49K |
| 2 | October 31, 2025 09:15 | October 31, 2025 14:00 | 4h 45m | 3,131 | 2,702 |
| 3 | December 8, 2025 16:30 | December 8, 2025 17:15 | 45m | 2,960 | 996 |
| 4 | March 11, 2025 02:15 | March 11, 2025 02:30 | 15m | 2,308 | 577 |
| 5 | February 17, 2025 06:30 | February 17, 2025 10:45 | 4h 15m | 2,307 | 9,805 |
| 6 | February 17, 2025 11:30 | February 17, 2025 20:15 | 8h 45m | 2,307 | 15K |
| 7 | June 15, 2025 02:00 | June 15, 2025 04:00 | 2h | 2,304 | 3,486 |
| 8 | April 20, 2025 09:15 | April 22, 2025 20:00 | 2d 10h | 2,247 | 38K |
| 9 | November 1, 2025 10:00 | November 2, 2025 03:30 | 17h 30m | 1,022 | 7,151 |
| 10 | December 6, 2025 07:15 | December 6, 2025 08:45 | 1h 30m | 733 | 917 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 63 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/piscataquis-county