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2017 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1776th 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 Wicomico 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 | April 21, 2017 16:15 | April 21, 2017 16:45 | 30m | 6,438 | 1,780 |
| 2 | October 22, 2017 10:00 | October 22, 2017 18:30 | 8h 30m | 5,585 | 1,426 |
| 3 | April 12, 2017 12:45 | April 12, 2017 13:00 | 15m | 4,792 | 1,198 |
| 4 | June 18, 2017 07:30 | June 18, 2017 15:45 | 8h 15m | 4,371 | 4,556 |
| 5 | June 6, 2017 10:30 | June 6, 2017 13:30 | 3h | 3,749 | 1,113 |
| 6 | June 25, 2017 04:45 | June 25, 2017 07:30 | 2h 45m | 2,610 | 1,717 |
| 7 | May 17, 2017 21:00 | May 18, 2017 06:15 | 9h 15m | 2,480 | 5,005 |
| 8 | July 14, 2017 22:30 | July 15, 2017 15:30 | 17h | 2,444 | 3,041 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 04:15 | May 1, 2017 10:30 | 6h 15m | 2,298 | 2,830 |
| 10 | April 21, 2017 12:15 | April 21, 2017 14:45 | 2h 30m | 2,290 | 575 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 77 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Wicomico 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 ÷ 61,546 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. Wicomico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wicomico 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/wicomico-county