County annual report · FIPS 24029
2016 Kent County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kent County, MD went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 930th 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 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 | August 15, 2016 02:00 | August 15, 2016 11:15 | 9h 15m | 3,068 | 11K |
| 2 | June 8, 2016 15:45 | June 8, 2016 22:30 | 6h 45m | 1,262 | 4,137 |
| 3 | April 19, 2016 12:00 | April 19, 2016 13:30 | 1h 30m | 1,214 | 1,821 |
| 4 | November 1, 2016 12:15 | November 1, 2016 17:30 | 5h 15m | 1,196 | 6,279 |
| 5 | February 25, 2016 00:45 | February 25, 2016 11:45 | 11h | 624 | 4,188 |
| 6 | April 3, 2016 16:15 | April 3, 2016 23:00 | 6h 45m | 304 | 769 |
| 7 | September 11, 2016 11:00 | September 11, 2016 13:15 | 2h 15m | 304 | 290 |
| 8 | July 18, 2016 21:00 | July 19, 2016 01:00 | 4h | 288 | 423 |
| 9 | December 24, 2016 21:30 | December 25, 2016 03:30 | 6h | 262 | 669 |
| 10 | October 9, 2016 18:00 | October 9, 2016 22:45 | 4h 45m | 252 | 1,105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 18 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
| 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 ÷ 10,903 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 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county