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2019 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.6 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1924th 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 Worcester 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 23, 2019 04:15 | July 23, 2019 18:45 | 14h 30m | 5,135 | 8,624 |
| 2 | April 9, 2019 01:00 | April 9, 2019 03:30 | 2h 30m | 2,867 | 5,010 |
| 3 | January 30, 2019 20:00 | January 30, 2019 21:00 | 1h | 2,409 | 1,953 |
| 4 | May 9, 2019 10:45 | May 9, 2019 18:15 | 7h 30m | 1,863 | 1,021 |
| 5 | April 15, 2019 08:30 | April 15, 2019 18:45 | 10h 15m | 1,721 | 6,889 |
| 6 | October 16, 2019 18:15 | October 16, 2019 19:15 | 1h | 1,196 | 602 |
| 7 | March 26, 2019 13:45 | March 26, 2019 17:45 | 4h | 965 | 245 |
| 8 | November 1, 2019 01:15 | November 1, 2019 20:30 | 19h 15m | 882 | 2,016 |
| 9 | October 20, 2019 21:15 | October 21, 2019 13:15 | 16h | 762 | 546 |
| 10 | July 18, 2019 08:30 | July 19, 2019 01:00 | 16h 30m | 694 | 716 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 63 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Worcester 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 |
| Town of Berlin - (MD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 31,542 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. Worcester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Worcester 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/worcester-county