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2020 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 291K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1376th 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 Cecil 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 | August 4, 2020 06:15 | August 7, 2020 04:45 | 2d 22h | 15,015 | 167K |
| 2 | June 24, 2020 11:30 | June 24, 2020 13:15 | 1h 45m | 8,044 | 2,016 |
| 3 | March 7, 2020 13:15 | March 7, 2020 13:30 | 15m | 5,795 | 1,449 |
| 4 | March 13, 2020 09:00 | March 14, 2020 03:00 | 18h | 4,890 | 2,825 |
| 5 | April 18, 2020 15:15 | April 19, 2020 07:00 | 15h 45m | 3,636 | 5,034 |
| 6 | May 23, 2020 05:45 | May 23, 2020 06:15 | 30m | 3,007 | 1,504 |
| 7 | June 11, 2020 02:45 | June 11, 2020 13:00 | 10h 15m | 2,834 | 4,434 |
| 8 | December 1, 2020 04:45 | December 1, 2020 09:15 | 4h 30m | 2,677 | 6,700 |
| 9 | December 15, 2020 04:30 | December 15, 2020 09:15 | 4h 45m | 2,103 | 2,385 |
| 10 | October 28, 2020 03:45 | October 28, 2020 11:15 | 7h 30m | 2,099 | 1,598 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 99 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cecil 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 ÷ 57,202 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. Cecil County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cecil 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/cecil-county