County annual report · FIPS 24017
2019 Charles County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Charles County, MD went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1874th 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 Charles 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 | September 11, 2019 21:00 | September 12, 2019 01:45 | 4h 45m | 6,525 | 6,764 |
| 2 | April 15, 2019 00:30 | April 16, 2019 00:00 | 23h 30m | 6,216 | 22K |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 22:45 | November 2, 2019 03:30 | 1d 4h | 5,901 | 13K |
| 4 | January 1, 2019 07:15 | January 1, 2019 16:00 | 8h 45m | 3,988 | 3,262 |
| 5 | May 11, 2019 11:15 | May 11, 2019 22:45 | 11h 30m | 3,093 | 2,862 |
| 6 | September 2, 2019 22:15 | September 3, 2019 10:30 | 12h 15m | 2,075 | 3,303 |
| 7 | July 4, 2019 20:00 | July 5, 2019 03:30 | 7h 30m | 2,022 | 5,032 |
| 8 | February 4, 2019 00:15 | February 4, 2019 03:00 | 2h 45m | 1,885 | 3,756 |
| 9 | October 29, 2019 12:30 | October 29, 2019 17:15 | 4h 45m | 1,831 | 1,458 |
| 10 | January 24, 2019 10:15 | January 24, 2019 19:45 | 9h 30m | 1,796 | 1,435 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 130 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 Charles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 73,494 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. Charles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charles 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/maryland/charles-county