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2021 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.5 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2297th 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 Worcester 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 | October 20, 2021 12:00 | October 20, 2021 17:45 | 5h 45m | 9,763 | 8,547 |
| 2 | September 30, 2021 06:45 | September 30, 2021 18:15 | 11h 30m | 5,109 | 6,767 |
| 3 | September 29, 2021 06:45 | September 29, 2021 09:45 | 3h | 2,806 | 2,871 |
| 4 | July 12, 2021 02:30 | July 12, 2021 08:45 | 6h 15m | 1,528 | 1,280 |
| 5 | September 2, 2021 14:15 | September 2, 2021 14:30 | 15m | 1,379 | 345 |
| 6 | May 10, 2021 08:45 | May 10, 2021 10:30 | 1h 45m | 1,082 | 952 |
| 7 | July 9, 2021 03:15 | July 9, 2021 10:15 | 7h | 1,015 | 855 |
| 8 | September 2, 2021 07:15 | September 2, 2021 07:45 | 30m | 914 | 230 |
| 9 | August 21, 2021 06:45 | August 21, 2021 12:15 | 5h 30m | 910 | 2,512 |
| 10 | November 1, 2021 13:00 | November 1, 2021 16:30 | 3h 30m | 905 | 465 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 46 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Worcester 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 |
| 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 99% of Maryland's customers in 2021; 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, 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/worcester-county