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2023 Dorchester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dorchester County, MD went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2432nd 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 Dorchester 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 | May 1, 2023 12:15 | May 1, 2023 12:30 | 15m | 1,993 | 498 |
| 2 | July 3, 2023 23:15 | July 4, 2023 08:45 | 9h 30m | 1,265 | 2,582 |
| 3 | January 31, 2023 13:30 | January 31, 2023 15:15 | 1h 45m | 1,146 | 1,729 |
| 4 | May 19, 2023 12:45 | May 19, 2023 16:00 | 3h 15m | 945 | 245 |
| 5 | August 10, 2023 12:15 | August 10, 2023 13:15 | 1h | 890 | 226 |
| 6 | September 23, 2023 08:15 | September 23, 2023 10:30 | 2h 15m | 634 | 950 |
| 7 | August 8, 2023 00:45 | August 9, 2023 01:00 | 1d | 589 | 2,866 |
| 8 | July 20, 2023 09:45 | July 20, 2023 11:30 | 1h 45m | 555 | 579 |
| 9 | August 1, 2023 17:15 | August 1, 2023 22:45 | 5h 30m | 499 | 786 |
| 10 | May 10, 2023 12:30 | May 10, 2023 14:00 | 1h 30m | 498 | 374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 36 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Dorchester 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 ÷ 18,093 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. Dorchester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dorchester 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/dorchester-county