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2019 Allegany County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Allegany County, MD went without power for an average of 15.0 hours, a total of 488K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 330th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Allegany 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 | February 12, 2019 04:45 | February 17, 2019 01:45 | 4d 21h | 6,327 | 145K |
| 2 | May 26, 2019 07:30 | May 26, 2019 13:45 | 6h 15m | 4,106 | 6,691 |
| 3 | December 16, 2019 22:45 | December 21, 2019 19:00 | 4d 20h | 3,968 | 64K |
| 4 | February 24, 2019 11:15 | February 28, 2019 23:45 | 4d 12h | 3,662 | 94K |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 22:15 | November 2, 2019 22:30 | 2d | 3,631 | 52K |
| 6 | March 22, 2019 07:00 | March 22, 2019 16:45 | 9h 45m | 2,176 | 9,412 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 20:45 | November 30, 2019 00:30 | 2d 3h | 1,789 | 17K |
| 8 | January 30, 2019 18:00 | January 31, 2019 01:15 | 7h 15m | 1,776 | 1,396 |
| 9 | July 26, 2019 14:15 | July 26, 2019 15:00 | 45m | 1,772 | 600 |
| 10 | January 1, 2019 06:30 | January 1, 2019 23:00 | 16h 30m | 1,750 | 1,595 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 67 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 Allegany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2018 | 5.1 hrs | 1.34 | 2.5 hrs | 1.08 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Maryland's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 32,504 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. Allegany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Allegany County, MD 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/maryland/allegany-county