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2018 Carroll County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Carroll County, MD went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 288K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 23 Maryland counties and 1240th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carroll 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 07:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 17h | 6,077 | 123K |
| 2 | May 19, 2018 06:15 | May 20, 2018 02:00 | 19h 45m | 5,427 | 1,506 |
| 3 | November 2, 2018 21:45 | November 5, 2018 09:15 | 2d 11h | 4,052 | 27K |
| 4 | September 1, 2018 00:15 | September 3, 2018 04:30 | 2d 4h | 2,423 | 3,561 |
| 5 | March 19, 2018 11:15 | March 20, 2018 07:45 | 20h 30m | 1,985 | 670 |
| 6 | February 7, 2018 13:30 | February 9, 2018 02:15 | 1d 12h | 1,848 | 3,646 |
| 7 | September 19, 2018 14:00 | September 20, 2018 15:15 | 1d 1h | 1,677 | 3,366 |
| 8 | February 26, 2018 01:45 | February 27, 2018 06:30 | 1d 4h | 1,443 | 692 |
| 9 | August 15, 2018 19:15 | August 16, 2018 03:00 | 7h 45m | 1,346 | 1,212 |
| 10 | March 30, 2018 12:30 | April 1, 2018 14:00 | 2d 1h | 1,215 | 880 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 98 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Carroll 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2018 | 5.1 hrs | 1.34 | 2.5 hrs | 1.08 |
| Baltimore Gas & Electric Co | 2018 | 7.2 hrs | 1.32 | 1.6 hrs | 0.95 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 98% of Maryland's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 71,073 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. Carroll County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carroll County, MD 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/maryland/carroll-county