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2016 Dorchester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dorchester County, MD went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1081st 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 Dorchester 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 | August 18, 2016 02:30 | August 18, 2016 11:15 | 8h 45m | 4,138 | 7,975 |
| 2 | June 21, 2016 23:00 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 3h 15m | 1,564 | 4,217 |
| 3 | April 3, 2016 04:00 | April 3, 2016 21:30 | 17h 30m | 1,319 | 6,961 |
| 4 | April 18, 2016 13:45 | April 18, 2016 16:00 | 2h 15m | 930 | 697 |
| 5 | July 4, 2016 07:30 | July 4, 2016 09:00 | 1h 30m | 923 | 1,153 |
| 6 | January 23, 2016 04:15 | January 23, 2016 09:30 | 5h 15m | 911 | 2,641 |
| 7 | June 8, 2016 11:15 | June 8, 2016 18:00 | 6h 45m | 886 | 982 |
| 8 | March 29, 2016 17:45 | March 29, 2016 18:30 | 45m | 822 | 213 |
| 9 | March 28, 2016 14:15 | March 28, 2016 19:45 | 5h 30m | 819 | 1,641 |
| 10 | January 22, 2016 02:30 | January 22, 2016 03:30 | 1h | 786 | 786 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 39 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/dorchester-county