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2016 Garrett County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Garrett County, MD went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 24 Maryland counties and 617th 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 Garrett 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 | April 3, 2016 01:15 | April 4, 2016 18:00 | 1d 16h | 3,170 | 12K |
| 2 | June 8, 2016 12:15 | June 9, 2016 07:15 | 19h | 1,679 | 3,162 |
| 3 | August 29, 2016 13:30 | August 29, 2016 14:30 | 1h | 1,534 | 1,060 |
| 4 | May 11, 2016 11:45 | May 11, 2016 13:00 | 1h 15m | 1,340 | 1,674 |
| 5 | October 22, 2016 00:00 | October 22, 2016 23:15 | 23h 15m | 1,183 | 2,443 |
| 6 | July 1, 2016 04:15 | July 1, 2016 10:15 | 6h | 896 | 2,826 |
| 7 | May 16, 2016 13:30 | May 16, 2016 14:00 | 30m | 886 | 357 |
| 8 | January 10, 2016 20:15 | January 11, 2016 23:15 | 1d 3h | 787 | 5,427 |
| 9 | March 13, 2016 07:15 | March 13, 2016 15:00 | 7h 45m | 755 | 2,081 |
| 10 | December 6, 2016 19:15 | December 8, 2016 01:30 | 1d 6h | 625 | 7,991 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 41 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Garrett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.17 | 2.2 hrs | 1.05 |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,588 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. Garrett County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garrett 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/garrett-county