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2016 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 680th 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 Worcester 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 | May 23, 2016 12:45 | May 23, 2016 16:15 | 3h 30m | 10,904 | 5,414 |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 23:15 | January 24, 2016 08:15 | 1d 9h | 6,883 | 47K |
| 3 | April 3, 2016 04:45 | April 3, 2016 16:15 | 11h 30m | 3,959 | 8,275 |
| 4 | September 1, 2016 17:30 | September 1, 2016 18:00 | 30m | 3,042 | 1,521 |
| 5 | October 11, 2016 14:15 | October 11, 2016 15:30 | 1h 15m | 2,475 | 1,853 |
| 6 | August 11, 2016 06:30 | August 11, 2016 14:15 | 7h 45m | 2,344 | 3,200 |
| 7 | February 12, 2016 17:00 | February 12, 2016 22:30 | 5h 30m | 2,256 | 2,393 |
| 8 | March 1, 2016 04:45 | March 1, 2016 05:45 | 1h | 2,248 | 1,711 |
| 9 | October 15, 2016 14:45 | October 15, 2016 19:45 | 5h | 1,386 | 3,578 |
| 10 | July 8, 2016 12:15 | July 8, 2016 13:15 | 1h | 1,234 | 935 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 98 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Worcester 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 |
| Town of Berlin - (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 ÷ 31,542 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. Worcester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Worcester 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/worcester-county