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2023 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (Maryland average 3.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2348th 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 Worcester 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 | December 12, 2023 19:00 | December 12, 2023 19:45 | 45m | 3,719 | 1,861 |
| 2 | September 27, 2023 09:00 | September 27, 2023 17:15 | 8h 15m | 1,231 | 554 |
| 3 | September 21, 2023 02:45 | September 21, 2023 06:45 | 4h | 1,215 | 2,617 |
| 4 | September 24, 2023 02:45 | September 24, 2023 04:45 | 2h | 1,201 | 2,266 |
| 5 | May 10, 2023 22:45 | May 11, 2023 00:45 | 2h | 1,194 | 1,792 |
| 6 | July 31, 2023 12:15 | July 31, 2023 17:00 | 4h 45m | 1,051 | 954 |
| 7 | July 9, 2023 22:30 | July 10, 2023 03:00 | 4h 30m | 1,001 | 568 |
| 8 | October 31, 2023 16:45 | October 31, 2023 22:15 | 5h 30m | 900 | 2,231 |
| 9 | June 12, 2023 09:15 | June 12, 2023 15:15 | 6h | 840 | 1,128 |
| 10 | August 27, 2023 18:45 | August 27, 2023 20:30 | 1h 45m | 745 | 810 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 56 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Worcester 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 |
| Town of Berlin - (MD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 31,542 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. Worcester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Worcester 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/worcester-county