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2021 Kent County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kent County, MD went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.5 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2311th 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 Kent 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 | May 2, 2021 00:15 | May 2, 2021 03:00 | 2h 45m | 2,811 | 5,668 |
| 2 | May 1, 2021 03:45 | May 1, 2021 05:00 | 1h 15m | 1,331 | 857 |
| 3 | April 30, 2021 05:15 | April 30, 2021 08:15 | 3h | 1,320 | 565 |
| 4 | June 15, 2021 03:30 | June 15, 2021 07:00 | 3h 30m | 767 | 1,195 |
| 5 | June 10, 2021 18:15 | June 10, 2021 22:30 | 4h 15m | 648 | 486 |
| 6 | August 6, 2021 13:15 | August 6, 2021 18:00 | 4h 45m | 617 | 632 |
| 7 | October 25, 2021 23:00 | October 26, 2021 05:45 | 6h 45m | 574 | 551 |
| 8 | January 12, 2021 15:30 | January 12, 2021 15:45 | 15m | 526 | 132 |
| 9 | June 14, 2021 04:15 | June 14, 2021 07:30 | 3h 15m | 371 | 710 |
| 10 | June 22, 2021 04:00 | June 22, 2021 20:15 | 16h 15m | 368 | 261 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 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 Kent 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 ÷ 10,903 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county