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2022 Worcester County, MA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Worcester County, MA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 880K customer-hours (Massachusetts average 3.3 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 14 Massachusetts counties and 1616th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Massachusetts 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 | August 22, 2022 10:30 | August 26, 2022 02:45 | 3d 16h | 21,950 | 33K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 06:15 | December 26, 2022 01:15 | 2d 19h | 13,403 | 206K |
| 3 | August 17, 2022 10:15 | August 19, 2022 20:00 | 2d 9h | 9,609 | 18K |
| 4 | November 15, 2022 15:00 | November 16, 2022 03:00 | 12h | 5,996 | 7,123 |
| 5 | March 31, 2022 22:45 | April 1, 2022 11:00 | 12h 15m | 5,770 | 6,052 |
| 6 | February 16, 2022 14:00 | February 17, 2022 03:45 | 13h 45m | 5,726 | 3,925 |
| 7 | August 7, 2022 15:15 | August 9, 2022 00:30 | 1d 9h | 5,190 | 11K |
| 8 | March 7, 2022 21:30 | March 9, 2022 10:30 | 1d 13h | 5,153 | 30K |
| 9 | February 24, 2022 12:15 | February 25, 2022 00:00 | 11h 45m | 4,969 | 5,631 |
| 10 | August 20, 2022 17:15 | August 21, 2022 16:30 | 23h 15m | 3,776 | 2,811 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 291 reached 100+ customers, 91 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Electric Co | 2022 | 2.4 hrs | 1.16 | 1.8 hrs | 1.05 |
| Unitil Energy Systems | 2022 | 4.6 hrs | 1.40 | 71 min | 0.88 |
| Fitchburg Gas & Elec Light Co | 2022 | 71 min | 1.10 | 71 min | 1.10 |
| Town of Sterling - (MA) | 2013 | 19 min | 0.28 | 8 min | 0.13 |
| Town of Ashburnham - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Boylston - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Holden - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Paxton - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Princeton - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Shrewsbury - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Templeton - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of West Boylston - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Massachusetts's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 212,617 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, MA 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/massachusetts/worcester-county