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2022 Garrett County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Garrett County, MD went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 149K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 648th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Garrett 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 | August 9, 2022 20:00 | August 10, 2022 00:00 | 4h | 4,018 | 6,913 |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 11:45 | December 28, 2022 01:45 | 4d 14h | 1,982 | 42K |
| 3 | September 25, 2022 16:45 | September 26, 2022 11:30 | 18h 45m | 1,756 | 3,559 |
| 4 | October 1, 2022 17:30 | October 2, 2022 08:15 | 14h 45m | 1,513 | 5,370 |
| 5 | April 18, 2022 16:00 | April 19, 2022 19:15 | 1d 3h | 1,366 | 10K |
| 6 | January 20, 2022 11:30 | January 20, 2022 17:30 | 6h | 1,305 | 3,280 |
| 7 | October 14, 2022 13:15 | October 14, 2022 17:45 | 4h 30m | 1,264 | 722 |
| 8 | May 2, 2022 02:00 | May 2, 2022 06:00 | 4h | 1,242 | 2,492 |
| 9 | December 15, 2022 11:00 | December 18, 2022 20:45 | 3d 9h | 1,168 | 19K |
| 10 | February 18, 2022 00:15 | February 19, 2022 04:00 | 1d 3h | 1,129 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 35 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Garrett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2022 | 8.1 hrs | 1.58 | 3.2 hrs | 1.19 |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 13,588 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. Garrett County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garrett County, MD 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/maryland/garrett-county