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2023 Garrett County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Garrett County, MD went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1028th 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 Garrett 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 18:30 | March 7, 2023 01:30 | 3d 7h | 3,491 | 48K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 10:45 | April 2, 2023 20:00 | 1d 9h | 2,069 | 7,648 |
| 3 | June 2, 2023 22:15 | June 3, 2023 04:45 | 6h 30m | 1,530 | 1,767 |
| 4 | February 16, 2023 13:30 | February 16, 2023 18:15 | 4h 45m | 893 | 473 |
| 5 | August 16, 2023 04:45 | August 16, 2023 10:45 | 6h | 806 | 1,415 |
| 6 | March 25, 2023 21:15 | March 27, 2023 00:30 | 1d 3h | 778 | 9,749 |
| 7 | March 15, 2023 12:30 | March 15, 2023 19:45 | 7h 15m | 705 | 873 |
| 8 | August 11, 2023 08:00 | August 11, 2023 16:00 | 8h | 665 | 1,399 |
| 9 | October 2, 2023 23:15 | October 3, 2023 10:30 | 11h 15m | 620 | 4,468 |
| 10 | December 18, 2023 13:00 | December 18, 2023 15:00 | 2h | 512 | 268 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 40 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 Garrett 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 |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,588 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. Garrett County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garrett 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/garrett-county