Piscataquis County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Piscataquis County, Maine had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

142 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 9, 2020, reached 10,663 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 142.2 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.

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

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	164,594	94	2
2016	464,870	136	11
2017	605,872	111	7
2018	266,239	72	5
2019	233,655	50	5
2020	1,262,022	66	7
2021	151,229	37	2
2022	255,329	76	3
2023	563,659	61	2

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	142.2	10,663	658,218
Dec 5, 2020	83.2	11,381	429,862
Dec 18, 2023	106.5	9,628	422,978
Oct 30, 2017	95.8	25,858	380,483
Dec 23, 2022	72.8	3,583	103,807

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.
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