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County annual report · FIPS 24047

2015 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report

In 2015, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1123rd of 2,484 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
2.3
31,542 customers
Customer-hours out
73K
Peak customers out
2,722
Outages ≥1,000 out
12
0 of 10,000+ · 531 total
Longest outage
13h 30m
began August 19, 2015
Rank in state
10th/24
1123rd of 2,484 US

Compared with MD, the US

Worcester County, MD average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2015Worcester County 2.3 hours, Maryland average 2.0 hours, US average 2.9 hoursWorcester CountyWorcester County2.3hMaryland averageMaryland average2.0hUS averageUS average2.9h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2015.

Month by month

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Worcester County, MD customer-hours without power by month, 2015Jan 0, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 2,947, Jun 5,187, Jul 4,216, Aug 12K, Sep 10K, Oct 24K, Nov 6,157, Dec 7,920010k20k30k0Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr2,947May5,187Jun4,216Jul12KAug10KSep24KOct6,157Nov7,920Dec
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Customer-hours; October was the worst month.

Worcester County year over year

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Worcester County, MD: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 2.3h; 2016: 4.8h; 2017: 7.5h; 2018: 4.4h, coverage 98%; 2019: 2.3h, coverage 97%; 2020: 3.9h, coverage 98%; 2021: 1.8h, coverage 99%; 2022: 3.1h, coverage 99%; 2023: 1.8h; 2024: 1.8h; 2025: 7.0h024680%50%100%2.3h20154.8h20167.5h20174.4h20182.3h20193.9h20201.8h20213.1h20221.8h20231.8h20247.0h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Worcester County, 2015

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1October 1, 2015 14:15October 1, 2015 19:455h 30m2,7221,427
2October 28, 2015 07:00October 28, 2015 14:307h 30m2,3069,463
3September 12, 2015 15:30September 13, 2015 01:3010h2,2773,041
4August 12, 2015 00:15August 12, 2015 07:006h 45m1,5132,038
5May 24, 2015 00:45May 24, 2015 05:304h 45m1,393702
6October 2, 2015 21:30October 3, 2015 06:008h 30m1,2983,385
7October 27, 2015 16:30October 27, 2015 18:302h1,2231,845
8December 29, 2015 01:30December 29, 2015 04:453h 15m1,1941,259
9November 6, 2015 09:00November 6, 2015 10:151h 15m1,1441,135
10November 2, 2015 17:15November 2, 2015 19:152h1,0801,743

Outage episodes by size in 2015: 65 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 Worcester County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Delmarva Power20153.5 hrs1.421.9 hrs1.22
Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc20152.7 hrs1.771.7 hrs1.26
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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 ÷ 31,542 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. Worcester County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Worcester 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/worcester-county

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