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2022 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (Maryland average 5.5 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1917th 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 Worcester 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 | June 14, 2022 13:15 | June 15, 2022 01:15 | 12h | 5,257 | 5,870 |
| 2 | June 29, 2022 06:15 | June 29, 2022 06:30 | 15m | 3,707 | 927 |
| 3 | May 8, 2022 16:15 | May 9, 2022 19:45 | 1d 3h | 3,662 | 7,616 |
| 4 | February 22, 2022 10:45 | February 22, 2022 12:45 | 2h | 2,854 | 3,569 |
| 5 | January 29, 2022 06:45 | January 30, 2022 01:30 | 18h 45m | 2,263 | 9,449 |
| 6 | July 25, 2022 23:45 | July 26, 2022 08:15 | 8h 30m | 2,181 | 4,924 |
| 7 | December 14, 2022 12:15 | December 14, 2022 22:45 | 10h 30m | 1,921 | 6,460 |
| 8 | September 2, 2022 12:45 | September 2, 2022 13:45 | 1h | 1,717 | 1,717 |
| 9 | September 12, 2022 14:15 | September 12, 2022 18:15 | 4h | 1,343 | 955 |
| 10 | December 25, 2022 12:00 | December 25, 2022 18:15 | 6h 15m | 1,217 | 4,773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 73 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 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 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/worcester-county