County annual report · FIPS 24045
2018 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 125K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 23 Maryland counties and 1861st 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 Wicomico 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 3, 2018 23:15 | 1d 14h | 17,135 | 59K |
| 2 | May 2, 2018 22:30 | May 3, 2018 04:45 | 6h 15m | 8,449 | 11K |
| 3 | June 5, 2018 03:00 | June 5, 2018 04:30 | 1h 30m | 4,391 | 3,373 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 20:15 | April 5, 2018 01:30 | 5h 15m | 2,653 | 3,973 |
| 5 | December 9, 2018 23:30 | December 10, 2018 06:45 | 7h 15m | 1,713 | 6,796 |
| 6 | July 17, 2018 17:00 | July 18, 2018 06:30 | 13h 30m | 1,511 | 896 |
| 7 | October 12, 2018 01:15 | October 13, 2018 00:00 | 22h 45m | 1,434 | 7,264 |
| 8 | January 7, 2018 19:15 | January 8, 2018 01:00 | 5h 45m | 1,023 | 509 |
| 9 | June 16, 2018 11:45 | June 16, 2018 14:15 | 2h 30m | 1,021 | 1,008 |
| 10 | January 3, 2018 09:30 | January 3, 2018 21:00 | 11h 30m | 981 | 586 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 46 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Wicomico 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 ÷ 61,546 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. Wicomico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wicomico 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/wicomico-county