Aroostook County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Aroostook County, Maine had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.46 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the Maine rate. It ranks 15 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Novhardest months

December and November made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 23, 2022, reached 23,323 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	80,572	53	1
2016	167,772	66	3
2017	195,164	56	3
2018	301,605	90	3
2019	254,042	75	2
2020	339,894	82	2
2021	165,307	61	0
2022	475,347	105	2
2023	166,849	68	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Dec 23, 2022	72.5	23,323	285,164
Nov 1, 2019	44.0	9,357	152,718
Nov 4, 2018	21.8	10,354	132,594
Oct 10, 2017	8.2	13,118	81,328
Dec 17, 2020	6.8	24,071	76,619

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.