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How many spam calls do people in Maine report? They filed 419 FCC complaints in 12 months, 33rd most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Maine filed 419 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 29.6 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 33rd among the 50 states and DC. The busiest month was August 2026, with 62 complaints.
- 419unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Maine, October 2025 to September 2026
- 29.6complaints for every 100,000 residents, 33rd of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 207the area code people there named most, on 76 complaints (all of Maine)
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025. All sources.
People in Maine reported area code 207 most, and 1 of the 10 busiest area codes is in Maine.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Maine whose caller ID started with that code. One code in the list is toll-free and belongs to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 107 of the 184 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Maine? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 207 | All of MaineIn Maine | Yes | 76 |
| 2 | 304 | West VirginiaIn WV | No, WV | 4 |
| 3 | 434 | Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville, VAIn VA | No, VA | 4 |
| 4 | 805 | Santa Barbara and Ventura, CAIn CA | No, CA | 4 |
| 5 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 4 |
| 6 | 202 | Washington, D.C.In DC | No, DC | 3 |
| 7 | 270 | Bowling Green and western KentuckyIn KY | No, KY | 3 |
| 8 | 332 | Manhattan, NYIn NY | No, NY | 3 |
| 9 | 470 | Metro Atlanta, GAIn GA | No, GA | 3 |
| 10 | 502 | Louisville, KYIn KY | No, KY | 3 |
Complaints from Maine peaked at 62 in August 2026, against 17 in December 2025.
October 2025 and November 2025 are shaded and dotted because the FCC file holds only 323 and 16,267 complaints of any kind in those months, against about 29,400 in a usual one.
Complaints from Maine by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Maine per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Maine
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 18 |
| December 2025 | 17 |
| January 2026 | 26 |
| February 2026 | 30 |
| March 2026 | 52 |
| April 2026 | 41 |
| May 2026 | 27 |
| June 2026 | 36 |
| July 2026 | 49 |
| August 2026 | 62 |
| September 2026 | 61 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from Maine, at 42% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 419 complaints from Maine split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Maine
How the 419 complaints from Maine split.
- Prerecorded call42% · 176 complaints
- Live caller28% · 116 complaints
- Text message15% · 63 complaints
- Kind not stated15% · 64 complaints
Across the country the split is prerecorded call 41%, live caller 26%, text message 15%, kind not stated 17%.
Fewer than half of the US numbers people in Maine reported carry a Maine area code, 76 of 169 (45%), against 50% across the country.
Of 184 complaints that gave a caller ID, 76 named a Maine code, 93 a code from another state, 12 a toll-free code and 3 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Maine reported came from
Where the 184 caller ID numbers from Maine came from.
Maine ranks 33rd of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Ohio and Nebraska.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Maine next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Maine.
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419 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 29.6 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 33rd among the 50 states and DC per person and 40th by total count.
207 (all of Maine) was named on 76 complaints, 41% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 304 (West Virginia) with 4 and 434 (Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville, Virginia) with 4.
Not mostly. 45% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Maine code, against 50% across the country. After Maine, the area codes named most belonged to California (10), New York (9) and Florida (8). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
42% were about prerecorded calls, 28% about a live caller and 15% about text messages, and 15% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
August 2026, with 62 complaints. The quietest full month was December 2025, with 17. October 2025 and November 2025 are left out of that comparison because the FCC file is thin for them.
File a complaint with the FCC's Consumer Help Center at consumercomplaints.fcc.gov. Complaints filed there are the ones counted on this page, listed by the state of the person who filed. To report a scam or fraud call, use ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
A state with more people files more complaints just by being bigger. Dividing by the Census Bureau's July 1, 2025 estimate for Maine (1,414,874 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Maine ranks 33rd per person and 40th by total count.
Every number on this page comes from two public sources.
The complaints come from the FCC.
Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", filed October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, read from opendata.fcc.gov on November 4, 2026.
The population comes from the Census Bureau.
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (NST-EST2025-POP), Vintage 2025 estimate for July 1, 2025, released January 2026, checked November 2026.
Data: FCC Consumer Complaints, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026, analysed by ExpressNumber. www.expressnumber.com/spam-calls-by-state/maine
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