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2017 Charles County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Charles County, MD went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 267K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1177th 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 Charles 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 | February 25, 2017 20:00 | February 26, 2017 08:45 | 12h 45m | 14,108 | 27K |
| 2 | March 14, 2017 07:00 | March 16, 2017 00:30 | 1d 17h | 10,932 | 82K |
| 3 | August 8, 2017 03:15 | August 8, 2017 17:15 | 14h | 5,574 | 5,176 |
| 4 | July 12, 2017 21:45 | July 13, 2017 06:30 | 8h 45m | 3,110 | 6,058 |
| 5 | April 21, 2017 22:00 | April 22, 2017 07:30 | 9h 30m | 2,993 | 6,474 |
| 6 | January 23, 2017 08:15 | January 24, 2017 06:00 | 21h 45m | 2,712 | 4,750 |
| 7 | April 22, 2017 10:30 | April 22, 2017 11:15 | 45m | 2,126 | 1,018 |
| 8 | August 21, 2017 07:15 | August 21, 2017 18:45 | 11h 30m | 1,956 | 3,233 |
| 9 | October 29, 2017 21:15 | October 30, 2017 23:30 | 1d 2h | 1,818 | 5,171 |
| 10 | October 24, 2017 13:15 | October 24, 2017 21:30 | 8h 15m | 1,806 | 1,056 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 122 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Charles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 73,494 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. Charles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charles 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/maryland/charles-county