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2024 Charles County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Charles County, MD went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 213K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2131st 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 Charles 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 | May 29, 2024 19:30 | May 30, 2024 17:30 | 22h | 5,332 | 16K |
| 2 | November 9, 2024 10:30 | November 9, 2024 16:15 | 5h 45m | 3,629 | 2,623 |
| 3 | May 5, 2024 06:45 | May 5, 2024 12:15 | 5h 30m | 2,632 | 5,785 |
| 4 | June 26, 2024 20:30 | June 28, 2024 01:45 | 1d 5h | 2,585 | 16K |
| 5 | September 14, 2024 15:45 | September 14, 2024 18:45 | 3h | 2,391 | 6,217 |
| 6 | May 13, 2024 22:30 | May 14, 2024 10:45 | 12h 15m | 2,014 | 3,542 |
| 7 | July 23, 2024 03:30 | July 23, 2024 12:15 | 8h 45m | 1,977 | 2,990 |
| 8 | June 30, 2024 18:45 | July 2, 2024 00:45 | 1d 6h | 1,956 | 7,758 |
| 9 | September 14, 2024 09:45 | September 14, 2024 13:15 | 3h 30m | 1,837 | 3,438 |
| 10 | May 26, 2024 05:00 | May 26, 2024 08:15 | 3h 15m | 1,709 | 1,981 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 113 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Charles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 2.4 hrs | 1.31 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
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 ÷ 73,494 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. Charles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charles 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/charles-county