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2017 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 391K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 771st 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 Cecil 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 | March 14, 2017 08:00 | March 17, 2017 00:45 | 2d 16h | 19,271 | 263K |
| 2 | May 1, 2017 12:00 | May 1, 2017 12:15 | 15m | 15,223 | 3,806 |
| 3 | May 8, 2017 12:00 | May 8, 2017 12:45 | 45m | 8,416 | 2,105 |
| 4 | June 26, 2017 11:15 | June 26, 2017 22:00 | 10h 45m | 6,919 | 12K |
| 5 | April 21, 2017 02:15 | April 21, 2017 03:45 | 1h 30m | 6,650 | 6,378 |
| 6 | August 2, 2017 07:00 | August 2, 2017 11:00 | 4h | 6,006 | 16K |
| 7 | May 24, 2017 21:15 | May 24, 2017 21:30 | 15m | 4,777 | 1,194 |
| 8 | January 23, 2017 10:00 | January 24, 2017 05:15 | 19h 15m | 3,944 | 7,979 |
| 9 | April 6, 2017 12:45 | April 8, 2017 01:30 | 1d 12h | 2,984 | 13K |
| 10 | April 19, 2017 21:45 | April 19, 2017 22:00 | 15m | 2,433 | 608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 89 reached 100+ customers, 23 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Cecil 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 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2017 | 2.5 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.52 |
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 ÷ 57,202 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. Cecil County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cecil 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/cecil-county