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2024 Kent County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Kent County, MD went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1837th 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 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 21:30 | January 11, 2024 10:45 | 1d 13h | 2,851 | 23K |
| 2 | May 22, 2024 20:15 | May 22, 2024 20:45 | 30m | 797 | 399 |
| 3 | December 28, 2024 06:00 | December 28, 2024 11:45 | 5h 45m | 665 | 1,026 |
| 4 | June 29, 2024 13:00 | June 29, 2024 13:15 | 15m | 652 | 163 |
| 5 | September 18, 2024 12:15 | September 18, 2024 13:30 | 1h 15m | 641 | 627 |
| 6 | July 17, 2024 02:45 | July 17, 2024 11:45 | 9h | 571 | 1,203 |
| 7 | March 10, 2024 21:15 | March 11, 2024 03:45 | 6h 30m | 531 | 1,158 |
| 8 | November 22, 2024 20:15 | November 22, 2024 22:45 | 2h 30m | 443 | 629 |
| 9 | July 12, 2024 10:45 | July 12, 2024 15:45 | 5h | 385 | 512 |
| 10 | February 18, 2024 06:00 | February 18, 2024 12:15 | 6h 15m | 248 | 531 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 25 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 |
| 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 ÷ 10,903 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 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county