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2016 Kent County, DE Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kent County, DE went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 189K customer-hours (Delaware average 2.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 3 Delaware counties and 1373rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with DE, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Delaware customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 16, 2016 19:15 | March 16, 2016 20:45 | 1h 30m | 10,108 | 3,761 |
| 2 | October 5, 2016 02:00 | October 5, 2016 09:00 | 7h | 8,464 | 5,564 |
| 3 | July 28, 2016 18:00 | July 29, 2016 04:45 | 10h 45m | 8,182 | 15K |
| 4 | January 10, 2016 06:45 | January 10, 2016 09:00 | 2h 15m | 7,393 | 9,472 |
| 5 | November 14, 2016 20:15 | November 15, 2016 01:15 | 5h | 5,112 | 4,584 |
| 6 | September 29, 2016 05:45 | September 30, 2016 21:45 | 1d 16h | 4,905 | 20K |
| 7 | June 21, 2016 17:30 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 8h 45m | 4,252 | 7,014 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 19:30 | February 25, 2016 18:30 | 23h | 3,803 | 5,275 |
| 9 | February 6, 2016 16:00 | February 6, 2016 16:30 | 30m | 3,706 | 1,853 |
| 10 | August 18, 2016 02:45 | August 18, 2016 11:00 | 8h 15m | 3,582 | 8,647 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 96 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Kent County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| Delaware Electric Cooperative | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.80 | 1.8 hrs | 1.70 |
| City of Milford - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Smyrna - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dover - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Clayton - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Delaware's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 98,370 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, DE annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/delaware/kent-county