Power outages in Sanford, ME
Live outages for Sanford and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Sanford has 22,663 residents.
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SanfordYork County
Outage history in York County, which includes Sanford
2014–2025 recordYork County averaged 58 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Maine counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 57. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 29 hours, starting March 7, 2025.
The largest on record began April 4, 2024, with 90,611 customers out at once.
58significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.2 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.5.6 dayslongest on record (October 2017)
90,611most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| April 4, 2024 | 90,611 | 4.8 days | 4,710,676 |
| October 30, 2017 | 74,835 | 5.6 days | 3,712,890 |
| December 23, 2022 | 48,991 | 3.7 days | 2,054,591 |
| March 24, 2024 | 47,505 | 2.8 days | 1,428,969 |
| December 18, 2023 | 45,752 | 2 days | 1,445,533 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.