Penobscot County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Penobscot County, Maine had 59 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.63 times the US outage time per person and 1.06 times the Maine rate. It ranks 9 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

153 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 18, 2023, reached 59,742 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 153.2 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	282,810	134	2
2016	904,021	157	11
2017	2,859,616	142	6
2018	785,339	166	5
2019	1,290,900	142	8
2020	4,095,208	137	10
2021	327,282	140	3
2022	1,291,817	162	6
2023	4,145,915	147	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 18, 2023	153.2	59,742	3,585,561
Apr 9, 2020	144.0	65,190	2,753,344
Oct 30, 2017	126.8	61,301	2,485,149
Dec 23, 2022	98.5	24,437	723,841
Nov 1, 2019	50.2	30,420	440,702

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.