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2020 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 160K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2017th 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 Wicomico 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 08:15 | August 7, 2020 00:45 | 2d 16h | 14,712 | 115K |
| 2 | July 29, 2020 00:45 | July 29, 2020 09:00 | 8h 15m | 3,167 | 2,543 |
| 3 | April 1, 2020 19:15 | April 1, 2020 20:15 | 1h | 2,368 | 594 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 10:00 | April 13, 2020 21:15 | 11h 15m | 2,249 | 3,486 |
| 5 | August 15, 2020 11:15 | August 15, 2020 16:30 | 5h 15m | 1,374 | 476 |
| 6 | July 19, 2020 08:15 | July 19, 2020 11:00 | 2h 45m | 1,226 | 800 |
| 7 | April 9, 2020 20:15 | April 10, 2020 02:30 | 6h 15m | 941 | 3,346 |
| 8 | August 8, 2020 03:45 | August 8, 2020 12:45 | 9h | 935 | 1,338 |
| 9 | January 12, 2020 03:00 | January 12, 2020 09:30 | 6h 30m | 661 | 2,400 |
| 10 | February 20, 2020 15:45 | February 20, 2020 20:30 | 4h 45m | 599 | 627 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 59 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Wicomico 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 ÷ 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, 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/wicomico-county