York County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

York County, Maine had 66 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.78 times the Maine rate. It ranks 11 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

126 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 30, 2017, reached 74,835 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 125.5 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	223,155	85	2
2016	311,538	135	3
2017	4,805,041	160	9
2018	1,080,708	171	11
2019	156,821	74	2
2020	2,433,746	196	13
2021	773,463	169	7
2022	3,053,444	136	9
2023	3,737,408	182	10

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	125.5	74,835	3,242,593
Dec 23, 2022	106.5	48,991	2,064,748
Dec 19, 2023	95.8	38,758	996,171
Dec 18, 2023	23.2	45,752	821,856
Dec 5, 2020	76.2	27,605	748,590

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.