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2023 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 247K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1605th 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 Cecil 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 | December 12, 2023 13:45 | December 13, 2023 00:15 | 10h 30m | 13,217 | 3,949 |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 16:00 | August 11, 2023 03:45 | 3d 11h | 11,105 | 105K |
| 3 | September 9, 2023 06:15 | September 11, 2023 09:30 | 2d 3h | 3,865 | 6,169 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 22:45 | April 3, 2023 13:15 | 1d 14h | 3,343 | 24K |
| 5 | April 14, 2023 09:00 | April 14, 2023 18:30 | 9h 30m | 2,895 | 748 |
| 6 | September 13, 2023 04:45 | September 13, 2023 14:00 | 9h 15m | 2,741 | 3,037 |
| 7 | December 20, 2023 05:15 | December 20, 2023 08:15 | 3h | 2,696 | 1,015 |
| 8 | June 2, 2023 16:30 | June 2, 2023 20:00 | 3h 30m | 2,238 | 2,429 |
| 9 | July 3, 2023 20:45 | July 4, 2023 18:15 | 21h 30m | 2,112 | 3,359 |
| 10 | June 26, 2023 22:30 | June 28, 2023 02:15 | 1d 3h | 2,045 | 4,956 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 78 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Cecil 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delmarva Power | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 0.76 | 58 min | 0.60 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.25 | 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 n/a of Maryland's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 57,202 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. Cecil County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cecil 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/cecil-county