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2019 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 221K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.6 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1372nd 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 Cecil 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 | July 17, 2019 17:30 | July 19, 2019 04:15 | 1d 10h | 5,189 | 15K |
| 2 | July 22, 2019 17:00 | July 24, 2019 04:00 | 1d 11h | 4,446 | 9,660 |
| 3 | May 29, 2019 21:00 | May 30, 2019 08:00 | 11h | 3,794 | 13K |
| 4 | October 31, 2019 23:15 | November 1, 2019 22:45 | 23h 30m | 3,375 | 12K |
| 5 | April 15, 2019 07:15 | April 15, 2019 21:30 | 14h 15m | 3,328 | 38K |
| 6 | July 21, 2019 15:45 | July 22, 2019 10:15 | 18h 30m | 3,196 | 5,756 |
| 7 | January 11, 2019 11:45 | January 11, 2019 18:30 | 6h 45m | 3,002 | 1,490 |
| 8 | August 22, 2019 22:15 | August 23, 2019 09:45 | 11h 30m | 2,909 | 11K |
| 9 | October 1, 2019 20:15 | October 2, 2019 06:00 | 9h 45m | 2,787 | 715 |
| 10 | September 10, 2019 13:15 | September 10, 2019 17:45 | 4h 30m | 2,776 | 7,632 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 84 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Cecil 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 |
| 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 97% of Maryland's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 57,202 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. Cecil County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cecil 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/cecil-county