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2018 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 310K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 23 Maryland counties and 987th 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 Cecil 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 14:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 10h | 18,964 | 235K |
| 2 | August 17, 2018 06:15 | August 17, 2018 22:45 | 16h 30m | 3,982 | 5,458 |
| 3 | February 22, 2018 02:30 | February 22, 2018 05:30 | 3h | 3,246 | 1,845 |
| 4 | August 31, 2018 12:15 | August 31, 2018 19:00 | 6h 45m | 2,881 | 2,033 |
| 5 | January 30, 2018 16:00 | January 31, 2018 00:30 | 8h 30m | 2,429 | 642 |
| 6 | October 12, 2018 07:00 | October 12, 2018 19:00 | 12h | 2,186 | 5,904 |
| 7 | June 17, 2018 23:45 | June 18, 2018 12:30 | 12h 45m | 1,934 | 3,468 |
| 8 | January 25, 2018 21:15 | January 25, 2018 23:15 | 2h | 1,244 | 315 |
| 9 | July 4, 2018 00:00 | July 4, 2018 10:15 | 10h 15m | 1,177 | 1,701 |
| 10 | December 1, 2018 13:30 | December 1, 2018 18:00 | 4h 30m | 1,025 | 1,975 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 70 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cecil 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 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.88 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
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 ÷ 57,202 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. Cecil County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cecil 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/cecil-county