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2023 Charles County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Charles County, MD went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 401K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1387th 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 Charles 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 | July 29, 2023 09:30 | August 1, 2023 05:45 | 2d 20h | 20,058 | 251K |
| 2 | December 18, 2023 12:15 | December 19, 2023 02:30 | 14h 15m | 7,588 | 6,397 |
| 3 | February 3, 2023 13:15 | February 3, 2023 18:30 | 5h 15m | 6,965 | 1,801 |
| 4 | September 16, 2023 08:15 | September 16, 2023 09:45 | 1h 30m | 5,837 | 5,607 |
| 5 | April 1, 2023 20:45 | April 3, 2023 01:00 | 1d 4h | 4,065 | 17K |
| 6 | October 19, 2023 14:00 | October 30, 2023 21:00 | 11d 7h | 3,273 | 8,422 |
| 7 | January 22, 2023 17:15 | January 22, 2023 18:45 | 1h 30m | 2,179 | 2,570 |
| 8 | February 17, 2023 17:15 | February 18, 2023 06:15 | 13h | 2,072 | 3,875 |
| 9 | June 6, 2023 13:00 | June 6, 2023 16:30 | 3h 30m | 1,393 | 1,155 |
| 10 | September 10, 2023 08:30 | September 10, 2023 20:30 | 12h | 1,382 | 2,663 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 99 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Charles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 |
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 ÷ 73,494 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. Charles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charles 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/charles-county