Power outages in Maine
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
No significant county-wide outages are currently reported in Maine.
Missing data is not the same as zero outages — not every utility reports into these sources.
Updated 11:32 AM EDT.
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Maine counties (16)
Utility coverage in Maine
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Known utilities we don't yet get live data from
Central Maine Power (CMP) — we know they serve this state; their areas are still covered by the county-level numbers above.
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Maine.
Historical outage patterns in Maine
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 12,827 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Maine between 2014 and 2025 across all 16 counties — 204 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 3 hr. The busiest year on record was 2020.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~109,526 customers out in Cumberland County in October 2017, restored after about 6 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: October 2017 (11 counties), December 2023 (8 counties) and April 2020 (6 counties).
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Maine?
Electric utilities we track in Maine include Central Maine Power and Versant Power. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.