Washington County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Maine had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.17 times the US outage time per person and 0.72 times the Maine rate. It ranks 12 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

116 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Sephardest months

December and September made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 18, 2023, reached 11,268 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 116.5 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	60,736	36	0
2016	240,519	50	5
2017	112,430	36	2
2018	217,566	49	6
2019	172,160	38	3
2020	232,607	47	4
2021	75,165	34	2
2022	351,815	63	4
2023	723,726	43	7

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 18, 2023	116.5	11,268	407,169
Dec 23, 2022	112.8	10,230	246,865
Sep 16, 2023	34.0	11,003	155,092
Oct 17, 2019	33.8	9,121	100,676
Apr 14, 2020	20.0	8,270	94,430

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.