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2024 Kent County, DE Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Kent County, DE went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Delaware average 2.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 3 Delaware counties and 2802nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with DE, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Delaware customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 9, 2024 19:30 | January 10, 2024 21:45 | 1d 2h | 5,254 | 29K |
| 2 | April 22, 2024 11:00 | April 22, 2024 11:45 | 45m | 3,501 | 2,626 |
| 3 | March 21, 2024 11:45 | March 21, 2024 13:45 | 2h | 3,338 | 1,525 |
| 4 | November 7, 2024 15:45 | November 7, 2024 19:15 | 3h 30m | 2,701 | 2,041 |
| 5 | November 11, 2024 14:45 | November 11, 2024 20:00 | 5h 15m | 2,681 | 690 |
| 6 | August 10, 2024 18:15 | August 10, 2024 20:15 | 2h | 1,995 | 1,230 |
| 7 | January 14, 2024 11:30 | January 14, 2024 13:15 | 1h 45m | 1,507 | 2,492 |
| 8 | June 22, 2024 11:30 | June 22, 2024 15:30 | 4h | 956 | 1,476 |
| 9 | May 6, 2024 12:30 | May 7, 2024 00:00 | 11h 30m | 894 | 1,143 |
| 10 | July 17, 2024 03:00 | July 17, 2024 09:30 | 6h 30m | 815 | 3,693 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 28 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 Kent County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 62 min | 0.61 |
| Delaware Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 1.11 | 61 min | 0.94 |
| City of Milford - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Smyrna - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dover - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Clayton - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Delaware's customers in 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 98,370 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 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, DE annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/delaware/kent-county