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2022 Kent County, DE Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Kent County, DE went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Delaware average 1.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 3 Delaware counties and 2747th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with DE, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Delaware customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent County, 2022
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 20, 2022 20:00 | May 21, 2022 02:15 | 6h 15m | 3,749 | 1,320 |
| 2 | November 12, 2022 22:30 | November 13, 2022 05:30 | 7h | 3,303 | 2,083 |
| 3 | March 1, 2022 21:45 | March 2, 2022 06:15 | 8h 30m | 3,254 | 3,762 |
| 4 | April 12, 2022 23:00 | April 13, 2022 01:00 | 2h | 2,007 | 1,020 |
| 5 | August 5, 2022 00:15 | August 5, 2022 21:45 | 21h 30m | 1,891 | 4,174 |
| 6 | June 1, 2022 06:15 | June 1, 2022 16:00 | 9h 45m | 1,835 | 5,868 |
| 7 | January 3, 2022 16:15 | January 4, 2022 06:30 | 14h 15m | 1,612 | 6,010 |
| 8 | January 15, 2022 16:00 | January 16, 2022 00:30 | 8h 30m | 1,507 | 2,638 |
| 9 | July 10, 2022 00:30 | July 10, 2022 01:00 | 30m | 1,454 | 727 |
| 10 | July 12, 2022 20:00 | July 13, 2022 20:30 | 1d | 1,454 | 6,017 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 72 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 1.9 hrs | 0.80 | 68 min | 0.73 |
| Delaware Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 90 min | 1.34 | 73 min | 1.17 |
| City of Milford - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Smyrna - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dover - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Clayton - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 86% of Delaware's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 98,370 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 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, DE annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/delaware/kent-county