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2017 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 237K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 711th 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 Worcester 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 3, 2017 20:00 | January 3, 2017 22:30 | 2h 30m | 18,536 | 28K |
| 2 | February 8, 2017 05:15 | February 8, 2017 10:00 | 4h 45m | 18,210 | 85K |
| 3 | May 19, 2017 13:00 | May 19, 2017 23:15 | 10h 15m | 7,862 | 18K |
| 4 | January 10, 2017 14:30 | January 10, 2017 19:45 | 5h 15m | 5,946 | 10K |
| 5 | October 11, 2017 07:15 | October 11, 2017 09:15 | 2h | 3,634 | 3,669 |
| 6 | July 20, 2017 08:30 | July 20, 2017 13:15 | 4h 45m | 2,952 | 1,565 |
| 7 | December 28, 2017 05:45 | December 28, 2017 11:45 | 6h | 2,818 | 9,069 |
| 8 | September 27, 2017 12:00 | September 27, 2017 16:00 | 4h | 2,752 | 1,405 |
| 9 | July 28, 2017 05:00 | July 28, 2017 06:30 | 1h 30m | 2,280 | 3,420 |
| 10 | September 6, 2017 21:45 | September 7, 2017 03:45 | 6h | 1,631 | 3,318 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 96 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Worcester 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 |
| Town of Berlin - (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 ÷ 31,542 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. Worcester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Worcester 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/worcester-county