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2022 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2647th 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 Wicomico 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 | July 13, 2022 02:00 | July 14, 2022 01:00 | 23h | 4,130 | 16K |
| 2 | July 25, 2022 23:00 | July 26, 2022 07:15 | 8h 15m | 1,810 | 5,142 |
| 3 | August 12, 2022 11:15 | August 12, 2022 17:15 | 6h | 1,498 | 427 |
| 4 | June 2, 2022 20:00 | June 3, 2022 03:15 | 7h 15m | 1,191 | 1,085 |
| 5 | August 20, 2022 00:45 | August 20, 2022 18:00 | 17h 15m | 1,143 | 5,779 |
| 6 | May 12, 2022 01:00 | May 12, 2022 02:15 | 1h 15m | 1,123 | 531 |
| 7 | August 5, 2022 19:15 | August 6, 2022 01:45 | 6h 30m | 1,018 | 1,849 |
| 8 | February 5, 2022 03:00 | February 5, 2022 04:15 | 1h 15m | 971 | 405 |
| 9 | October 29, 2022 13:30 | October 29, 2022 15:15 | 1h 45m | 882 | 1,465 |
| 10 | January 17, 2022 01:00 | January 17, 2022 17:45 | 16h 45m | 702 | 1,322 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 57 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 Wicomico 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 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 | 1.9 hrs | 1.25 |
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 ÷ 61,546 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. Wicomico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wicomico 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/wicomico-county