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2023 Kent County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kent County, MD went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2037th 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 Kent 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 | April 18, 2023 10:15 | April 18, 2023 18:15 | 8h | 3,994 | 5,431 |
| 2 | July 23, 2023 15:30 | July 24, 2023 04:00 | 12h 30m | 2,376 | 1,971 |
| 3 | July 19, 2023 05:00 | July 19, 2023 11:30 | 6h 30m | 2,375 | 967 |
| 4 | August 15, 2023 20:15 | August 16, 2023 02:45 | 6h 30m | 1,542 | 1,654 |
| 5 | July 29, 2023 20:45 | July 30, 2023 11:15 | 14h 30m | 782 | 2,650 |
| 6 | January 18, 2023 10:45 | January 18, 2023 11:30 | 45m | 736 | 552 |
| 7 | June 19, 2023 23:00 | June 20, 2023 03:45 | 4h 45m | 424 | 1,188 |
| 8 | April 21, 2023 06:15 | April 21, 2023 07:15 | 1h | 223 | 137 |
| 9 | October 11, 2023 22:45 | October 12, 2023 00:45 | 2h | 220 | 287 |
| 10 | August 7, 2023 22:45 | August 8, 2023 09:00 | 10h 15m | 195 | 312 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 27 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Kent 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 ÷ 10,903 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county