County annual report · FIPS 24045
2015 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.0 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1730th 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 Wicomico 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 | November 5, 2015 17:45 | November 6, 2015 00:45 | 7h | 5,916 | 8,203 |
| 2 | October 2, 2015 21:30 | October 3, 2015 05:15 | 7h 45m | 4,790 | 1,506 |
| 3 | October 29, 2015 11:45 | October 29, 2015 17:30 | 5h 45m | 2,902 | 2,429 |
| 4 | October 4, 2015 23:00 | October 5, 2015 01:00 | 2h | 2,884 | 2,194 |
| 5 | December 19, 2015 10:00 | December 19, 2015 16:15 | 6h 15m | 2,568 | 1,222 |
| 6 | October 5, 2015 01:45 | October 5, 2015 05:45 | 4h | 2,345 | 1,280 |
| 7 | October 9, 2015 12:00 | October 9, 2015 23:15 | 11h 15m | 1,459 | 6,569 |
| 8 | July 27, 2015 18:45 | July 27, 2015 22:45 | 4h | 1,410 | 1,583 |
| 9 | October 28, 2015 14:00 | October 28, 2015 20:15 | 6h 15m | 1,358 | 1,121 |
| 10 | August 9, 2015 19:15 | August 9, 2015 22:30 | 3h 15m | 1,356 | 1,361 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 57 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Wicomico 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 ÷ 61,546 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. Wicomico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wicomico 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/wicomico-county