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2021 Talbot County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Talbot County, MD went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.5 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2725th 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 Talbot 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 | September 30, 2021 11:45 | September 30, 2021 14:30 | 2h 45m | 2,683 | 5,500 |
| 2 | August 27, 2021 23:45 | August 28, 2021 23:00 | 23h 15m | 1,258 | 1,406 |
| 3 | August 30, 2021 12:15 | August 30, 2021 13:45 | 1h 30m | 1,254 | 1,533 |
| 4 | February 10, 2021 23:00 | February 11, 2021 02:15 | 3h 15m | 1,045 | 2,360 |
| 5 | May 1, 2021 02:45 | May 1, 2021 09:45 | 7h | 669 | 3,426 |
| 6 | June 29, 2021 20:45 | June 29, 2021 22:45 | 2h | 432 | 644 |
| 7 | April 25, 2021 00:45 | April 25, 2021 03:15 | 2h 30m | 373 | 618 |
| 8 | February 25, 2021 08:15 | February 25, 2021 10:45 | 2h 30m | 266 | 575 |
| 9 | July 1, 2021 20:30 | July 2, 2021 00:00 | 3h 30m | 248 | 412 |
| 10 | January 11, 2021 16:45 | January 11, 2021 19:15 | 2h 30m | 244 | 63 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Talbot 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 |
| Easton Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 29,180 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. Talbot County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Talbot 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/talbot-county