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2024 Garrett County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Garrett County, MD went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1315th 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 Garrett 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 | February 23, 2024 03:00 | February 23, 2024 06:30 | 3h 30m | 3,947 | 8,818 |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 16:15 | September 29, 2024 17:00 | 2d | 2,247 | 12K |
| 3 | February 27, 2024 20:00 | February 27, 2024 20:30 | 30m | 1,780 | 890 |
| 4 | January 9, 2024 15:15 | January 12, 2024 01:45 | 2d 10h | 1,596 | 14K |
| 5 | October 15, 2024 13:15 | October 15, 2024 13:45 | 30m | 859 | 215 |
| 6 | October 5, 2024 01:45 | October 5, 2024 04:15 | 2h 30m | 820 | 1,206 |
| 7 | July 3, 2024 02:00 | July 3, 2024 16:00 | 14h | 658 | 555 |
| 8 | March 13, 2024 18:45 | March 14, 2024 00:00 | 5h 15m | 592 | 462 |
| 9 | September 26, 2024 13:15 | September 26, 2024 15:15 | 2h | 583 | 756 |
| 10 | September 18, 2024 20:45 | September 18, 2024 21:30 | 45m | 557 | 254 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 47 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 Garrett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.32 | 3.4 hrs | 1.28 |
| Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,588 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. Garrett County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garrett 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/garrett-county