Portland / Fort Kent
Fort Kent has 4,150 residents (give or take 18) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19), about 77 people per square mile.
Fort Kent is about 261 miles from the Census center point for Portland in a straight line and covers 54.125 square miles of land (Census 2024 Gazetteer internal points and land area, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2024_Gazetteer/, checked 2026-10-19).
The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Fort Kent that is 04743 (Census 2020 ZCTA to county subdivision and ZCTA to place relationship files, ZIP areas at least 20% inside the town, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_cousub20_natl.txt and https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_place20_natl.txt, checked 2026-10-19).
Fort Kent is spread out at 77 people per square mile across 54.125 square miles of land, so a long refrigerant line run between the outdoor unit and the farthest indoor head is the sizing question an installer checks first.
Of the 1,962 occupied homes in Fort Kent, 2% heat with natural gas, 69% with heating oil, 7% with electricity and 12% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating oil is the largest single fuel in Fort Kent at 69%, ahead of propane at 12%, so the usual job here is an oil boiler or furnace coming out and a cold-climate heat pump going in, with the oil tank removed.
Fort Kent has about the Aroostook County oil share of 68% and 3 points less electric heat than the county's 10% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US23003, checked 2026-10-19).
Fort Kent has 2,285 housing units, 17% built before 1940 and 51% before 1980, with 29% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19).
Fort Kent has 3 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Aroostook County as a whole (20%) and 13 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 16% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US23003, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Fort Kent home was built in 1979 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.6 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19).
55% of Fort Kent homes are single-family detached, 14% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 10% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19).
21% of Fort Kent homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 55% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Fort Kent has 18 points fewer detached houses than Aroostook County overall (73%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US23003, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Fort Kent on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Efficiency Maine whole-home heat pump rebate, run by Efficiency Maine, is a live program for Maine addresses and lists a standard figure of $3,000 (registry row 7 verified 2026-10-15, https://www.efficiencymaine.com/whole-home-heat-pump-rebates/, checked 2026-10-16); confirm eligibility for the Fort Kent address before counting it. With 7% of Fort Kent homes already on electric heat and 83% on gas, oil or propane, the row that applies depends on the name on the electric bill and the fuel coming out.
Median household income in Fort Kent is $56,270 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=060XX00US2300325755, checked 2026-10-19); many state and utility heat pump rebate programs set higher incentive tiers for income-qualifying households, so the household income on the application, not the town median, decides which level applies.
Heating design temperature: -17F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Aroostook County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 54 to 55 of 141 (Revised 11/11/2020), https://www.energystar.gov/sites/default/files/Design%20Temperature%20Limit%20Reference%20Guide%20(2019%20Ed)%20-%20ENERGY%20STAR%20Single-Family%20New%20Homes_Rev11.pdf, fetched 2026-10-19, 99%.
That -17F figure is the Aroostook County cold-day number a Fort Kent heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at -17F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask what happens to the oil tank, since 69% of the 1,962 occupied Fort Kent homes have one and removal is usually a separate line on the quote.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Fort Kent home has 5.6 rooms and was built around 1979, and the count of heads and the tonnage follow the rooms and the insulation, not the square footage.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Fort Kent. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Fort Kent yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.