County annual report · FIPS 24043
2016 Washington County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, MD went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1731st 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 Washington 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 30, 2016 19:45 | August 1, 2016 08:30 | 1d 12h | 2,070 | 2,011 |
| 2 | May 14, 2016 20:45 | May 15, 2016 00:30 | 3h 45m | 1,292 | 1,652 |
| 3 | April 22, 2016 05:30 | April 22, 2016 08:30 | 3h | 1,234 | 3,699 |
| 4 | February 7, 2016 14:45 | February 7, 2016 20:45 | 6h | 1,177 | 2,741 |
| 5 | October 13, 2016 08:45 | October 13, 2016 17:00 | 8h 15m | 1,168 | 1,775 |
| 6 | October 30, 2016 12:45 | October 30, 2016 15:45 | 3h | 1,136 | 872 |
| 7 | November 30, 2016 14:30 | November 30, 2016 21:15 | 6h 45m | 932 | 1,661 |
| 8 | June 22, 2016 08:30 | June 22, 2016 15:45 | 7h 15m | 913 | 561 |
| 9 | November 19, 2016 19:00 | November 20, 2016 08:45 | 13h 45m | 716 | 1,255 |
| 10 | December 6, 2016 15:30 | December 6, 2016 19:45 | 4h 15m | 711 | 1,246 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 65 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Washington 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 |
| Hagerstown Light Department | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Williamsport - (MD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 65,276 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county