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2024 Cecil County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cecil County, MD went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 286K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1610th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cecil 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 | July 16, 2024 23:45 | July 18, 2024 22:00 | 1d 22h | 13,121 | 145K |
| 2 | August 2, 2024 19:45 | August 5, 2024 19:45 | 3d | 3,237 | 11K |
| 3 | June 30, 2024 20:45 | July 1, 2024 17:45 | 21h | 2,934 | 2,629 |
| 4 | August 28, 2024 11:15 | August 30, 2024 03:15 | 1d 16h | 2,833 | 3,701 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 15:45 | January 12, 2024 03:45 | 2d 12h | 2,774 | 22K |
| 6 | June 12, 2024 12:15 | June 12, 2024 16:45 | 4h 30m | 2,743 | 954 |
| 7 | September 25, 2024 15:15 | September 25, 2024 20:45 | 5h 30m | 2,150 | 3,969 |
| 8 | October 22, 2024 12:45 | October 22, 2024 17:15 | 4h 30m | 1,797 | 468 |
| 9 | December 4, 2024 11:45 | December 6, 2024 04:15 | 1d 16h | 1,657 | 5,442 |
| 10 | December 10, 2024 13:15 | December 11, 2024 07:15 | 18h | 1,380 | 1,134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 97 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cecil 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 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2024 | 2.4 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 1.17 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 57,202 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. Cecil County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cecil County, MD 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/maryland/cecil-county