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2024 Dorchester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Dorchester County, MD went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2351st 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 Dorchester 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 25, 2024 16:15 | January 25, 2024 18:45 | 2h 30m | 2,901 | 3,678 |
| 2 | June 19, 2024 13:45 | June 19, 2024 15:30 | 1h 45m | 2,262 | 584 |
| 3 | May 24, 2024 14:15 | May 24, 2024 20:45 | 6h 30m | 2,080 | 2,115 |
| 4 | January 9, 2024 21:00 | January 11, 2024 09:45 | 1d 12h | 1,795 | 8,566 |
| 5 | April 18, 2024 11:00 | April 18, 2024 14:45 | 3h 45m | 937 | 534 |
| 6 | September 22, 2024 08:15 | September 22, 2024 11:15 | 3h | 766 | 2,107 |
| 7 | November 26, 2024 11:15 | November 26, 2024 19:45 | 8h 30m | 613 | 2,254 |
| 8 | November 2, 2024 03:00 | November 2, 2024 04:45 | 1h 45m | 530 | 892 |
| 9 | April 30, 2024 13:15 | April 30, 2024 18:00 | 4h 45m | 376 | 1,691 |
| 10 | August 3, 2024 23:15 | August 4, 2024 11:45 | 12h 30m | 374 | 1,380 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 32 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Dorchester 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 ÷ 18,093 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. Dorchester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dorchester 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/dorchester-county