Oxford County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oxford County, Maine had 77 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.41 times the US outage time per person and 1.47 times the Maine rate. It ranks 6 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

8.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

132 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 17, 2022, reached 25,494 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Maine counties

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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	86,200	57	3
2016	189,129	107	7
2017	1,158,519	118	8
2018	913,238	120	14
2019	205,258	69	5
2020	1,872,429	122	10
2021	537,298	115	8
2022	2,030,346	135	14
2023	1,474,602	122	8

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 17, 2022	47.8	25,494	904,595
Dec 5, 2020	86.5	20,835	899,482
Oct 30, 2017	131.8	16,714	796,158
Dec 19, 2023	83.2	19,310	749,260
Dec 23, 2022	103.2	15,647	574,208

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.