County annual report · FIPS 24041
2016 Talbot County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Talbot County, MD went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1078th 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 Talbot 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 21, 2016 11:15 | August 21, 2016 15:45 | 4h 30m | 11,268 | 20K |
| 2 | April 12, 2016 18:30 | April 12, 2016 19:15 | 45m | 3,148 | 2,361 |
| 3 | October 9, 2016 08:00 | October 10, 2016 05:30 | 21h 30m | 2,447 | 12K |
| 4 | April 7, 2016 15:00 | April 7, 2016 18:00 | 3h | 2,388 | 599 |
| 5 | November 14, 2016 16:15 | November 15, 2016 04:15 | 12h | 2,331 | 21K |
| 6 | August 16, 2016 19:45 | August 17, 2016 01:30 | 5h 45m | 2,312 | 2,988 |
| 7 | June 5, 2016 02:00 | June 5, 2016 05:00 | 3h | 2,067 | 3,618 |
| 8 | May 30, 2016 05:30 | May 30, 2016 06:45 | 1h 15m | 1,734 | 1,735 |
| 9 | June 10, 2016 19:00 | June 10, 2016 20:30 | 1h 30m | 1,410 | 1,447 |
| 10 | September 14, 2016 21:00 | September 14, 2016 22:30 | 1h 30m | 727 | 910 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 33 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Talbot 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 |
| Easton Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 29,180 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. Talbot County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Talbot 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/talbot-county