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2017 Kent County, DE Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kent County, DE went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Delaware average 2.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 3 Delaware counties and 1929th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with DE, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Delaware customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 24, 2017 06:30 | October 24, 2017 22:30 | 16h | 5,893 | 15K |
| 2 | July 20, 2017 13:30 | July 20, 2017 19:45 | 6h 15m | 5,889 | 6,540 |
| 3 | June 30, 2017 12:30 | June 30, 2017 14:30 | 2h | 4,363 | 2,739 |
| 4 | November 1, 2017 04:00 | November 1, 2017 04:45 | 45m | 4,251 | 1,842 |
| 5 | April 17, 2017 17:30 | April 17, 2017 21:00 | 3h 30m | 3,303 | 4,271 |
| 6 | February 25, 2017 02:15 | February 25, 2017 07:30 | 5h 15m | 3,250 | 2,445 |
| 7 | August 9, 2017 08:30 | August 9, 2017 13:30 | 5h | 2,842 | 3,573 |
| 8 | February 4, 2017 06:45 | February 4, 2017 13:30 | 6h 45m | 2,812 | 5,259 |
| 9 | July 2, 2017 06:45 | July 2, 2017 14:45 | 8h | 2,539 | 3,217 |
| 10 | March 1, 2017 19:00 | March 2, 2017 04:00 | 9h | 2,389 | 4,934 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 103 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Kent County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | 1.19 | 86 min | 0.98 |
| Delaware Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.43 | 1.6 hrs | 1.43 |
| City of Milford - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Smyrna - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dover - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Clayton - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Delaware's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 98,370 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, DE annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/delaware/kent-county