Androscoggin County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Androscoggin County, Maine had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.89 times the US outage time per person and 0.66 times the Maine rate. It ranks 13 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

130 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 19, 2023, reached 36,457 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 85.0 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	87,793	67	0
2016	223,793	82	4
2017	1,321,628	109	4
2018	323,337	117	7
2019	79,172	58	1
2020	1,849,744	118	6
2021	148,953	89	2
2022	1,109,945	93	7
2023	2,183,080	87	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 19, 2023	85.0	36,457	1,256,622
Oct 30, 2017	129.5	28,333	978,720
Apr 9, 2020	75.5	27,922	782,199
Dec 18, 2023	23.5	40,795	651,384
Dec 5, 2020	85.5	24,362	624,884

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.