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2021 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.5 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2018th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cecil County, 2021
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 26, 2021 03:15 | July 26, 2021 18:45 | 15h 30m | 6,146 | 23K |
| 2 | December 14, 2021 13:00 | December 14, 2021 20:30 | 7h 30m | 5,961 | 7,033 |
| 3 | June 21, 2021 21:15 | June 22, 2021 21:30 | 1d | 3,183 | 15K |
| 4 | July 27, 2021 14:15 | July 31, 2021 21:00 | 4d 6h | 2,800 | 2,573 |
| 5 | March 17, 2021 11:45 | March 18, 2021 05:45 | 18h | 2,749 | 3,669 |
| 6 | March 8, 2021 03:45 | March 8, 2021 17:45 | 14h | 2,411 | 1,074 |
| 7 | September 29, 2021 00:30 | September 29, 2021 09:30 | 9h | 2,166 | 2,504 |
| 8 | June 3, 2021 10:45 | June 3, 2021 14:15 | 3h 30m | 2,157 | 761 |
| 9 | May 19, 2021 13:45 | May 20, 2021 03:15 | 13h 30m | 2,110 | 586 |
| 10 | March 12, 2021 12:45 | March 15, 2021 10:45 | 2d 22h | 2,011 | 790 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 88 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Cecil County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 63 min | 0.82 | 63 min | 0.82 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 1.20 | 1.7 hrs | 1.20 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of Maryland's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/maryland/cecil-county