County annual report · FIPS 24039
2016 Somerset County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Somerset County, MD went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 736th 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 Somerset 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 | July 8, 2016 19:00 | July 8, 2016 19:30 | 30m | 4,306 | 1,077 |
| 2 | February 19, 2016 21:30 | February 20, 2016 01:15 | 3h 45m | 2,996 | 7,739 |
| 3 | July 13, 2016 22:45 | July 14, 2016 08:00 | 9h 15m | 2,938 | 5,679 |
| 4 | April 10, 2016 13:15 | April 10, 2016 19:30 | 6h 15m | 2,335 | 1,648 |
| 5 | May 18, 2016 13:15 | May 18, 2016 13:45 | 30m | 2,157 | 540 |
| 6 | August 11, 2016 06:30 | August 11, 2016 07:45 | 1h 15m | 1,614 | 2,018 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 23:45 | July 29, 2016 09:15 | 9h 30m | 1,449 | 1,116 |
| 8 | April 5, 2016 07:45 | April 5, 2016 14:00 | 6h 15m | 1,258 | 4,289 |
| 9 | November 22, 2016 05:00 | November 22, 2016 06:45 | 1h 45m | 1,022 | 1,553 |
| 10 | March 1, 2016 04:45 | March 1, 2016 05:45 | 1h | 950 | 714 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 57 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Somerset 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 |
| A & N Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,318 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county