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2017 Baltimore County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Baltimore County, MD went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 724K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1647th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Baltimore 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 | August 2, 2017 15:15 | August 9, 2017 07:15 | 6d 16h | 23,507 | 258K |
| 2 | March 1, 2017 13:45 | March 5, 2017 03:45 | 3d 14h | 8,396 | 56K |
| 3 | August 18, 2017 08:15 | August 26, 2017 12:30 | 8d 4h | 5,416 | 46K |
| 4 | January 2, 2017 16:00 | January 3, 2017 01:00 | 9h | 4,889 | 2,212 |
| 5 | February 11, 2017 14:45 | February 16, 2017 10:15 | 4d 19h | 4,645 | 24K |
| 6 | April 16, 2017 08:00 | April 19, 2017 02:30 | 2d 18h | 4,226 | 2,954 |
| 7 | August 9, 2017 12:00 | August 14, 2017 14:00 | 5d 2h | 3,789 | 19K |
| 8 | July 4, 2017 11:30 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 2d 11h | 3,773 | 18K |
| 9 | July 1, 2017 20:15 | July 4, 2017 05:45 | 2d 9h | 2,265 | 7,662 |
| 10 | August 15, 2017 12:45 | August 18, 2017 07:30 | 2d 18h | 2,053 | 5,369 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 111 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Baltimore 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Gas & Electric Co | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.83 | 74 min | 0.72 |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 370,224 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. Baltimore County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Baltimore County, MD 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/maryland/baltimore-county