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2017 Garrett County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Garrett County, MD went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 848th 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 Garrett 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 | January 5, 2017 07:15 | January 5, 2017 10:00 | 2h 45m | 2,104 | 5,259 |
| 2 | July 11, 2017 00:45 | July 11, 2017 10:00 | 9h 15m | 1,798 | 2,499 |
| 3 | January 17, 2017 13:15 | January 17, 2017 15:15 | 2h | 1,466 | 1,090 |
| 4 | August 11, 2017 11:15 | August 11, 2017 12:30 | 1h 15m | 1,464 | 1,237 |
| 5 | October 30, 2017 01:15 | October 31, 2017 14:00 | 1d 12h | 1,177 | 12K |
| 6 | February 8, 2017 06:30 | February 8, 2017 19:00 | 12h 30m | 1,033 | 5,879 |
| 7 | November 19, 2017 06:45 | November 20, 2017 19:45 | 1d 13h | 935 | 9,105 |
| 8 | March 10, 2017 11:00 | March 10, 2017 16:30 | 5h 30m | 567 | 1,299 |
| 9 | July 29, 2017 11:15 | July 30, 2017 05:30 | 18h 15m | 504 | 2,213 |
| 10 | October 9, 2017 08:15 | October 9, 2017 19:00 | 10h 45m | 500 | 1,422 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 42 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Garrett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.01 | 2.3 hrs | 0.99 |
| Somerset Rural 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 ÷ 13,588 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. Garrett County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garrett 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/garrett-county