Power Out Map
– 0% of Lincoln out 0 customers out in Maine

Power outage history

Lincoln County Maine

39hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

4th most of 16 in Maine 6.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 30, 2017 100% of customers out · 90% back in 7.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 39h / yr State average 21 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.8days Oct 30, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 75% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 3.7 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 23,436 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Lincoln's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lincoln, hours without power per customer

LincolnUS median countyMaine average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 3.9 ’15 9.9 ’16 90 ’17 22 ’18 6.1 ’19 65 ’20 11 ’21 36 ’22 70 ’23 88 ’24 15 ’25 ME 21 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 30, 2017 Windstorm 23,436 100% 8.8 d 7.1 d 2.0M
Apr 4, 2024 Winter storm 22,945 98% 3.9 d 2.6 d 1.1M
Dec 18, 2023 Windstorm 20,500 87% 4.4 d 2.4 d 933k
Apr 9, 2020 Winter storm 16,452 70% 3.1 d 48 h 690k
Dec 23, 2022 Windstorm 15,863 68% 4.0 d 2.6 d 538k
Mar 23, 2024 Winter storm 13,515 58% 3.6 d 48 h 514k
Mar 14, 2023 Winter storm 11,081 47% 2.0 d 40 h 254k
Sep 16, 2023 Hurricane Lee 9,658 41% 35 h 30 h 182k
Mar 8, 2018 Winter storm 6,429 27% 2.4 d 14 h 168k
Dec 5, 2020 No storm report 7,541 32% 2.1 d 31 h 163k
Dec 19, 2025 Windstorm 7,307 31% 2.0 d 39 h 157k
Sep 30, 2020 No storm report 9,061 39% 36 h 29 h 154k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +20h 90% by +40h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 41%
  • Windstorm 27%
  • No storm on record 25%
  • Tropical storm 3.3%
  • Thunderstorms 1.8%
  • Flooding 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lincoln

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Maine territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Central Maine Power Co Investor Owned 318 177 2.11 27.4 584k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Maine

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Maine counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 23,436 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →