Power Outages in Dorchester County, MD
No live outage feed is available for Dorchester County, MD yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.5 hours.
Dorchester County, MD is served by local tracked utilities.
Dorchester County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Severe Thunderstorm WatchSEVERE
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Dorchester County has been under 18 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Severe Thunderstorm Watch on July 18, 2026.
- Coastal Flood Statement ×9
- Air Quality Alert ×4
- Heat Advisory ×3
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Dorchester County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Dorchester County went about 2.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 7,837 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 7,837 customers out) · decade average 2.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 337 | 2,493 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 515 | 4,138 | 2.7 |
| 2017 | 509 | 5,611 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 334 | 3,067 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 576 | 3,681 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 582 | 7,837 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 576 | 4,905 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 602 | 2,307 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 598 | 1,993 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 562 | 2,901 | 2.2 |
| 2025 | 578 | 6,528 | 2.5 |
Relatively Moderate hurricanes exposure · 2.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Dorchester County: FAQ
- How often does Dorchester County, MD lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Dorchester County, MD logged 578 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Dorchester County, MD?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 7,837 customers without power, beginning August 4, 2020 and lasting about 1d 22h.
- Is there a power outage in Dorchester County, MD right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Dorchester County, MD. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Dorchester County.
21613, 21622, 21626, 21627, 21631, 21634, 21643, 21648, 21659, 21664, 21669, 21672, 21675, 21677, 21835, 21869
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/24019 and /api/v1/counties/24019/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Maryland customers).