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2023 Allegany County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Allegany County, MD went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 195K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1287th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Allegany County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 3, 2023 23:15 | March 8, 2023 00:30 | 4d 1h | 7,687 | 93K |
| 2 | December 14, 2023 14:15 | December 14, 2023 15:45 | 1h 30m | 7,419 | 7,637 |
| 3 | September 26, 2023 11:15 | September 26, 2023 20:15 | 9h | 2,468 | 1,798 |
| 4 | August 7, 2023 18:45 | August 9, 2023 15:45 | 1d 21h | 2,326 | 21K |
| 5 | October 1, 2023 03:30 | October 1, 2023 06:00 | 2h 30m | 1,369 | 391 |
| 6 | January 22, 2023 21:15 | January 22, 2023 23:45 | 2h 30m | 1,182 | 2,951 |
| 7 | September 4, 2023 03:15 | September 4, 2023 05:30 | 2h 15m | 1,042 | 1,014 |
| 8 | July 1, 2023 20:15 | July 2, 2023 16:45 | 20h 30m | 991 | 2,888 |
| 9 | April 25, 2023 00:45 | April 25, 2023 01:30 | 45m | 985 | 739 |
| 10 | April 1, 2023 18:30 | April 3, 2023 02:45 | 1d 8h | 777 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 64 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 Allegany County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.11 | 2.5 hrs | 0.98 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Maryland's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 32,504 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. Allegany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Allegany County, MD annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/maryland/allegany-county