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2019 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.6 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2435th 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 Wicomico 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 18, 2019 00:15 | July 18, 2019 09:30 | 9h 15m | 3,360 | 14K |
| 2 | August 1, 2019 19:15 | August 2, 2019 02:15 | 7h | 3,313 | 1,994 |
| 3 | June 18, 2019 00:45 | June 18, 2019 16:15 | 15h 30m | 2,331 | 4,569 |
| 4 | January 27, 2019 13:30 | January 28, 2019 00:15 | 10h 45m | 2,075 | 2,606 |
| 5 | January 2, 2019 02:00 | January 2, 2019 03:30 | 1h 30m | 1,737 | 1,788 |
| 6 | July 22, 2019 05:00 | July 22, 2019 07:45 | 2h 45m | 1,417 | 2,460 |
| 7 | July 18, 2019 11:30 | July 19, 2019 05:15 | 17h 45m | 1,034 | 3,008 |
| 8 | April 19, 2019 17:00 | April 20, 2019 00:00 | 7h | 992 | 903 |
| 9 | June 29, 2019 01:45 | June 29, 2019 05:15 | 3h 30m | 860 | 1,607 |
| 10 | June 11, 2019 18:15 | June 11, 2019 23:30 | 5h 15m | 820 | 4,096 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 64 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 Wicomico 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 ÷ 61,546 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. Wicomico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wicomico 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/wicomico-county