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2019 Garrett County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Garrett County, MD went without power for an average of 33.6 hours, a total of 456K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 24 Maryland counties and 97th 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 Garrett 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 | December 16, 2019 23:45 | December 21, 2019 20:00 | 4d 20h | 8,670 | 255K |
| 2 | May 13, 2019 15:30 | May 13, 2019 21:15 | 5h 45m | 4,484 | 2,126 |
| 3 | February 24, 2019 19:00 | February 28, 2019 03:15 | 3d 8h | 3,568 | 65K |
| 4 | February 12, 2019 07:00 | February 17, 2019 01:45 | 4d 18h | 2,627 | 52K |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 16:15 | November 2, 2019 20:30 | 2d 4h | 1,849 | 16K |
| 6 | January 1, 2019 06:00 | January 1, 2019 22:15 | 16h 15m | 1,286 | 3,510 |
| 7 | April 15, 2019 02:00 | April 15, 2019 21:30 | 19h 30m | 1,050 | 3,193 |
| 8 | November 28, 2019 00:00 | November 29, 2019 22:15 | 1d 22h | 913 | 3,347 |
| 9 | July 19, 2019 23:45 | July 20, 2019 13:45 | 14h | 879 | 2,252 |
| 10 | October 9, 2019 03:15 | October 9, 2019 05:15 | 2h | 845 | 1,690 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 35 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Garrett 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 |
| Somerset Rural 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 ÷ 13,588 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. Garrett County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garrett 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/garrett-county