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2019 Dorchester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dorchester County, MD went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.6 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2214th 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 Dorchester 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 | June 21, 2019 12:00 | June 21, 2019 12:45 | 45m | 3,681 | 1,017 |
| 2 | October 9, 2019 12:30 | October 9, 2019 14:30 | 2h | 2,982 | 3,640 |
| 3 | July 5, 2019 10:00 | July 5, 2019 15:15 | 5h 15m | 2,685 | 1,162 |
| 4 | August 17, 2019 19:00 | August 17, 2019 20:45 | 1h 45m | 1,207 | 1,262 |
| 5 | November 5, 2019 19:00 | November 5, 2019 19:15 | 15m | 1,114 | 279 |
| 6 | August 9, 2019 19:45 | August 10, 2019 08:45 | 13h | 742 | 4,184 |
| 7 | November 1, 2019 01:15 | November 1, 2019 09:15 | 8h | 693 | 1,139 |
| 8 | July 8, 2019 10:00 | July 8, 2019 12:45 | 2h 45m | 631 | 947 |
| 9 | May 20, 2019 21:45 | May 21, 2019 01:00 | 3h 15m | 409 | 1,250 |
| 10 | April 8, 2019 17:45 | April 8, 2019 22:00 | 4h 15m | 394 | 1,570 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 33 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Dorchester 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 ÷ 18,093 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. Dorchester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dorchester 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/dorchester-county