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2018 Dorchester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dorchester County, MD went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 23 Maryland counties and 2097th 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 Dorchester 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 09:15 | March 4, 2018 00:15 | 1d 15h | 3,067 | 8,549 |
| 2 | March 7, 2018 01:45 | March 7, 2018 05:00 | 3h 15m | 2,205 | 5,502 |
| 3 | April 13, 2018 01:15 | April 13, 2018 10:00 | 8h 45m | 959 | 2,109 |
| 4 | December 15, 2018 16:45 | December 15, 2018 22:15 | 5h 30m | 673 | 677 |
| 5 | November 16, 2018 02:00 | November 16, 2018 08:30 | 6h 30m | 371 | 244 |
| 6 | May 16, 2018 03:00 | May 16, 2018 07:15 | 4h 15m | 357 | 829 |
| 7 | January 5, 2018 20:45 | January 5, 2018 23:30 | 2h 45m | 346 | 798 |
| 8 | December 2, 2018 23:00 | December 3, 2018 07:00 | 8h | 329 | 2,140 |
| 9 | February 26, 2018 09:30 | February 26, 2018 15:15 | 5h 45m | 163 | 662 |
| 10 | July 25, 2018 23:00 | July 26, 2018 02:30 | 3h 30m | 138 | 278 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 14 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Dorchester 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 ÷ 18,093 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. Dorchester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dorchester 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/dorchester-county