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2018 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 23 Maryland counties and 1163rd 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 Worcester 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 09:45 | March 4, 2018 03:00 | 1d 17h | 9,328 | 54K |
| 2 | August 22, 2018 14:30 | August 22, 2018 20:45 | 6h 15m | 7,636 | 3,940 |
| 3 | May 26, 2018 15:15 | May 26, 2018 17:45 | 2h 30m | 5,583 | 2,812 |
| 4 | July 24, 2018 04:00 | July 24, 2018 05:15 | 1h 15m | 3,586 | 3,578 |
| 5 | July 9, 2018 04:45 | July 9, 2018 11:00 | 6h 15m | 3,583 | 10K |
| 6 | January 19, 2018 14:45 | January 19, 2018 17:30 | 2h 45m | 3,560 | 4,734 |
| 7 | March 21, 2018 18:00 | March 21, 2018 19:30 | 1h 30m | 3,229 | 1,615 |
| 8 | September 10, 2018 00:00 | September 10, 2018 08:00 | 8h | 2,881 | 2,771 |
| 9 | March 20, 2018 12:15 | March 20, 2018 18:15 | 6h | 2,859 | 5,684 |
| 10 | October 8, 2018 12:45 | October 8, 2018 13:00 | 15m | 2,651 | 663 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 60 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Worcester 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 |
| Town of Berlin - (MD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 31,542 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. Worcester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Worcester 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/worcester-county