Waldo County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Waldo County, Maine had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.44 times the US outage time per person and 1.48 times the Maine rate. It ranks 5 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

144 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 30, 2017, reached 22,738 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 144.0 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.

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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	56,176	34	2
2016	270,251	56	5
2017	1,593,836	66	6
2018	227,465	62	3
2019	70,349	33	2
2020	1,859,053	71	6
2021	150,653	65	5
2022	577,296	64	4
2023	955,363	70	5

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
Oct 30, 2017	144.0	22,738	1,445,939
Apr 9, 2020	122.0	22,013	1,259,426
Dec 18, 2023	133.2	17,309	722,260
Dec 23, 2022	73.2	15,287	401,860
Sep 30, 2020	35.8	9,770	182,306

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.