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2019 Kent County, DE Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kent County, DE went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 143K customer-hours (Delaware average 1.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 3 Delaware counties and 2301st of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with DE, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Delaware customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 15, 2019 07:15 | April 16, 2019 02:15 | 19h | 9,117 | 42K |
| 2 | April 26, 2019 06:30 | April 26, 2019 09:00 | 2h 30m | 6,661 | 7,992 |
| 3 | August 29, 2019 12:15 | August 29, 2019 12:45 | 30m | 4,330 | 1,084 |
| 4 | August 23, 2019 02:00 | August 23, 2019 14:30 | 12h 30m | 4,269 | 7,501 |
| 5 | July 17, 2019 23:00 | July 19, 2019 02:00 | 1d 3h | 2,885 | 9,081 |
| 6 | May 26, 2019 22:45 | May 27, 2019 23:30 | 1d | 2,875 | 11K |
| 7 | November 1, 2019 01:15 | November 1, 2019 20:15 | 19h | 2,528 | 4,778 |
| 8 | May 29, 2019 22:45 | May 30, 2019 16:45 | 18h | 1,987 | 3,542 |
| 9 | May 5, 2019 05:45 | May 5, 2019 07:15 | 1h 30m | 1,660 | 697 |
| 10 | July 28, 2019 19:15 | July 28, 2019 23:45 | 4h 30m | 1,637 | 3,218 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 78 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Kent County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Delaware Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.60 | 84 min | 1.36 |
| City of Milford - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Smyrna - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dover - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Clayton - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 86% of Delaware's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 98,370 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, DE annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/delaware/kent-county