County annual report · FIPS 24045
2016 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1470th 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 Wicomico 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 | June 18, 2016 03:30 | June 18, 2016 07:45 | 4h 15m | 3,624 | 4,499 |
| 2 | January 23, 2016 07:45 | January 23, 2016 19:15 | 11h 30m | 2,715 | 6,803 |
| 3 | April 3, 2016 04:30 | April 4, 2016 03:15 | 22h 45m | 2,697 | 7,947 |
| 4 | July 28, 2016 12:30 | July 29, 2016 14:15 | 1d 1h | 2,562 | 3,853 |
| 5 | June 21, 2016 20:00 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 6h 15m | 2,485 | 3,700 |
| 6 | September 30, 2016 10:00 | September 30, 2016 16:30 | 6h 30m | 2,402 | 682 |
| 7 | April 12, 2016 14:00 | April 12, 2016 16:45 | 2h 45m | 2,164 | 2,026 |
| 8 | July 20, 2016 02:00 | July 21, 2016 02:15 | 1d | 1,975 | 3,924 |
| 9 | February 16, 2016 15:15 | February 16, 2016 21:15 | 6h | 1,973 | 1,188 |
| 10 | January 13, 2016 12:00 | January 13, 2016 17:30 | 5h 30m | 1,881 | 1,418 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 99 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Wicomico 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 ÷ 61,546 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. Wicomico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wicomico 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/wicomico-county