County annual report · FIPS 24041
2023 Talbot County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Talbot County, MD went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2646th 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 Talbot 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 3, 2023 21:30 | July 4, 2023 21:45 | 1d | 1,803 | 7,095 |
| 2 | July 29, 2023 21:15 | July 30, 2023 23:30 | 1d 2h | 1,599 | 1,826 |
| 3 | June 13, 2023 23:45 | June 14, 2023 03:45 | 4h | 940 | 3,757 |
| 4 | December 12, 2023 16:45 | December 12, 2023 17:30 | 45m | 875 | 219 |
| 5 | August 7, 2023 23:30 | August 8, 2023 10:45 | 11h 15m | 793 | 1,970 |
| 6 | June 1, 2023 23:15 | June 2, 2023 01:15 | 2h | 684 | 414 |
| 7 | November 18, 2023 13:15 | November 18, 2023 18:00 | 4h 45m | 549 | 670 |
| 8 | September 8, 2023 04:45 | September 8, 2023 05:45 | 1h | 517 | 462 |
| 9 | May 20, 2023 04:15 | May 20, 2023 09:45 | 5h 30m | 488 | 2,684 |
| 10 | January 24, 2023 13:45 | January 24, 2023 17:15 | 3h 30m | 357 | 98 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Talbot 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 |
| Easton Utilities Comm | 2023 | 60 min | 0.36 | 18 min | 0.17 |
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 ÷ 29,180 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. Talbot County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Talbot 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/talbot-county