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2020 Caroline County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Caroline County, MD went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1635th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caroline County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 13, 2020 10:15 | April 13, 2020 21:45 | 11h 30m | 5,791 | 5,559 |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 12:15 | August 6, 2020 20:00 | 2d 7h | 4,051 | 43K |
| 3 | February 3, 2020 20:30 | February 3, 2020 21:30 | 1h | 1,098 | 550 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 05:45 | February 7, 2020 06:00 | 15m | 839 | 210 |
| 5 | July 31, 2020 02:30 | July 31, 2020 06:30 | 4h | 784 | 989 |
| 6 | July 22, 2020 02:15 | July 22, 2020 15:30 | 13h 15m | 740 | 1,809 |
| 7 | January 28, 2020 17:15 | January 28, 2020 17:30 | 15m | 665 | 166 |
| 8 | February 7, 2020 14:45 | February 7, 2020 18:45 | 4h | 570 | 914 |
| 9 | March 31, 2020 10:15 | March 31, 2020 18:00 | 7h 45m | 507 | 510 |
| 10 | August 3, 2020 03:00 | August 3, 2020 06:15 | 3h 15m | 394 | 447 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Caroline County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 1.10 | 73 min | 0.80 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 1.55 | 88 min | 1.04 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 98% of Maryland's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,587 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. Caroline County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Caroline County, MD annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/maryland/caroline-county