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2020 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1624th 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 Worcester 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 11:30 | August 6, 2020 05:15 | 1d 17h | 11,360 | 54K |
| 2 | August 17, 2020 05:15 | August 17, 2020 11:30 | 6h 15m | 2,522 | 10K |
| 3 | June 15, 2020 08:30 | June 15, 2020 09:15 | 45m | 2,273 | 1,705 |
| 4 | March 5, 2020 14:15 | March 5, 2020 18:15 | 4h | 1,788 | 459 |
| 5 | August 2, 2020 21:15 | August 3, 2020 02:30 | 5h 15m | 1,322 | 938 |
| 6 | June 25, 2020 23:00 | June 26, 2020 08:15 | 9h 15m | 1,197 | 2,314 |
| 7 | February 6, 2020 21:45 | February 7, 2020 02:45 | 5h | 1,196 | 2,470 |
| 8 | March 27, 2020 13:45 | March 27, 2020 19:30 | 5h 45m | 1,140 | 1,252 |
| 9 | October 19, 2020 01:30 | October 19, 2020 06:30 | 5h | 928 | 4,634 |
| 10 | July 22, 2020 05:00 | July 22, 2020 10:00 | 5h | 876 | 1,451 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 72 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Worcester 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 |
| 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 98% of Maryland's customers in 2020; 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, 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/worcester-county