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2015 Dorchester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Dorchester County, MD went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.0 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1650th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dorchester County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 23, 2015 12:30 | September 23, 2015 13:00 | 30m | 2,493 | 1,247 |
| 2 | November 7, 2015 13:45 | November 7, 2015 16:00 | 2h 15m | 1,432 | 922 |
| 3 | June 12, 2015 15:15 | June 12, 2015 16:00 | 45m | 1,353 | 677 |
| 4 | August 21, 2015 03:30 | August 21, 2015 09:00 | 5h 30m | 1,223 | 2,692 |
| 5 | October 9, 2015 19:00 | October 9, 2015 20:15 | 1h 15m | 922 | 923 |
| 6 | June 29, 2015 11:45 | June 29, 2015 13:15 | 1h 30m | 895 | 898 |
| 7 | September 6, 2015 15:00 | September 6, 2015 16:45 | 1h 45m | 857 | 1,491 |
| 8 | July 10, 2015 17:00 | July 10, 2015 23:45 | 6h 45m | 695 | 1,431 |
| 9 | August 22, 2015 20:15 | August 23, 2015 00:00 | 3h 45m | 538 | 282 |
| 10 | October 3, 2015 17:30 | October 3, 2015 21:45 | 4h 15m | 410 | 1,289 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 25 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Dorchester County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delmarva Power | 2015 | 3.5 hrs | 1.42 | 1.9 hrs | 1.22 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.77 | 1.7 hrs | 1.26 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Maryland's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,093 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Dorchester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dorchester County, MD annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/maryland/dorchester-county