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2018 Kent County, DE Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kent County, DE went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 114K customer-hours (Delaware average 2.4 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 3 Delaware counties and 2246th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with DE, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Delaware customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 2, 2018 14:45 | March 4, 2018 00:30 | 1d 9h | 7,777 | 51K |
| 2 | August 7, 2018 11:45 | August 7, 2018 12:00 | 15m | 3,358 | 840 |
| 3 | March 29, 2018 15:45 | March 29, 2018 21:15 | 5h 30m | 3,355 | 1,939 |
| 4 | May 13, 2018 00:30 | May 13, 2018 07:15 | 6h 45m | 3,292 | 3,870 |
| 5 | November 6, 2018 04:30 | November 6, 2018 09:00 | 4h 30m | 3,248 | 4,885 |
| 6 | July 5, 2018 12:30 | July 5, 2018 16:30 | 4h | 2,871 | 728 |
| 7 | July 17, 2018 19:30 | July 18, 2018 09:00 | 13h 30m | 2,856 | 6,733 |
| 8 | July 22, 2018 17:30 | July 22, 2018 18:00 | 30m | 2,767 | 1,384 |
| 9 | November 16, 2018 09:00 | November 16, 2018 10:45 | 1h 45m | 2,743 | 2,743 |
| 10 | March 2, 2018 06:30 | March 2, 2018 09:15 | 2h 45m | 2,206 | 3,171 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 46 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Kent County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.12 | 86 min | 0.91 |
| Delaware Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.60 | 84 min | 1.36 |
| City of Milford - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Smyrna - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dover - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Clayton - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 86% of Delaware's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 98,370 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, DE annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/delaware/kent-county