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2017 Washington County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, MD went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1765th 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 Washington 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 | July 18, 2017 14:00 | July 18, 2017 20:15 | 6h 15m | 2,473 | 2,539 |
| 2 | April 25, 2017 16:15 | April 26, 2017 11:15 | 19h | 1,956 | 6,068 |
| 3 | February 13, 2017 03:00 | February 14, 2017 20:00 | 1d 17h | 1,761 | 8,114 |
| 4 | June 3, 2017 15:45 | June 4, 2017 02:15 | 10h 30m | 1,676 | 2,415 |
| 5 | April 21, 2017 10:30 | April 21, 2017 18:15 | 7h 45m | 1,594 | 3,364 |
| 6 | August 4, 2017 22:45 | August 5, 2017 23:30 | 1d | 1,390 | 4,123 |
| 7 | September 18, 2017 20:15 | September 19, 2017 05:15 | 9h | 1,317 | 3,647 |
| 8 | November 1, 2017 17:45 | November 1, 2017 20:15 | 2h 30m | 1,232 | 935 |
| 9 | February 9, 2017 13:00 | February 10, 2017 01:30 | 12h 30m | 1,142 | 2,339 |
| 10 | September 5, 2017 19:15 | September 6, 2017 22:45 | 1d 3h | 1,125 | 7,750 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 62 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Washington 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 |
| Hagerstown Light Department | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Williamsport - (MD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 65,276 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county