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

Power outage history

Oxford County Maine

32hours

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

5th most of 16 in Maine 4.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 4, 2024 66% of customers out · 90% back in 3.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 32h / yr State average 21 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 22hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.9days Oct 30, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 79% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 2.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 38,205 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 Oxford'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Oxford, hours without power per customer

OxfordUS median countyMaine average
0 20 40 60 80 3.2 ’15 6.1 ’16 32 ’17 26 ’18 6.3 ’19 51 ’20 15 ’21 55 ’22 40 ’23 52 ’24 7.5 ’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
Apr 4, 2024 Winter storm 25,282 66% 4.8 d 3.5 d 1.5M
Dec 16, 2022 Winter storm 25,494 67% 4.0 d 3.1 d 1.2M
Dec 18, 2023 Flooding 20,368 53% 4.3 d 3.0 d 1.1M
Dec 5, 2020 Winter storm 20,835 55% 4.1 d 2.4 d 917k
Oct 30, 2017 Windstorm 16,714 44% 5.9 d 2.0 h 892k
Dec 23, 2022 Flooding 15,647 41% 4.3 d 2.8 d 575k
Apr 9, 2020 Winter storm 14,468 38% 2.9 d 44 h 469k
Nov 26, 2018 Winter storm 9,955 26% 2.5 d 44 h 277k
Mar 2, 2021 Windstorm 11,773 31% 2.4 d 31 h 210k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 8,439 22% 41 h 24 h 194k
Jan 23, 2018 No storm report 8,570 22% 45 h 27 h 163k
Dec 3, 2023 Winter storm 10,496 27% 43 h 26 h 152k

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 +26h 90% by +44h

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 Oxford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 53%
  • No storm on record 21%
  • Flooding 20%
  • Windstorm 2.4%
  • Tropical storm 2.3%
  • Thunderstorms 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Oxford

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 38,205 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 →