Franklin County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, Maine had 40 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.78 times the US outage time per person and 1.55 times the Maine rate. It ranks 4 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

122 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 9, 2020, reached 17,176 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 103.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	31,379	28	0
2016	122,338	54	3
2017	556,599	64	5
2018	574,790	77	6
2019	149,416	37	2
2020	1,644,678	78	8
2021	265,544	71	4
2022	390,044	80	4
2023	875,104	82	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
Apr 9, 2020	103.8	17,176	688,136
Dec 5, 2020	84.8	13,868	612,943
Dec 19, 2023	86.5	10,451	479,821
Oct 30, 2017	121.5	8,308	317,459
Dec 18, 2023	20.8	12,821	183,160

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.