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2016 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 277K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 677th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cecil 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 | October 24, 2016 18:30 | October 25, 2016 00:00 | 5h 30m | 11,139 | 7,398 |
| 2 | June 8, 2016 15:00 | June 10, 2016 00:45 | 1d 9h | 8,415 | 20K |
| 3 | August 15, 2016 01:45 | August 15, 2016 10:30 | 8h 45m | 6,819 | 31K |
| 4 | August 1, 2016 18:15 | August 2, 2016 02:00 | 7h 45m | 5,876 | 5,510 |
| 5 | November 1, 2016 11:30 | November 1, 2016 20:15 | 8h 45m | 5,867 | 31K |
| 6 | April 19, 2016 12:00 | April 19, 2016 19:45 | 7h 45m | 5,811 | 26K |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 21:45 | February 25, 2016 09:45 | 12h | 5,703 | 18K |
| 8 | April 3, 2016 02:45 | April 4, 2016 01:15 | 22h 30m | 5,377 | 29K |
| 9 | April 2, 2016 14:15 | April 2, 2016 22:30 | 8h 15m | 5,090 | 6,574 |
| 10 | September 11, 2016 19:00 | September 11, 2016 19:30 | 30m | 4,773 | 1,195 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 97 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Cecil 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 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2016 | 3.1 hrs | 1.60 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 57,202 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. Cecil County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cecil County, MD 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/maryland/cecil-county