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2024 Washington County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Washington County, MD went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 122K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2443rd 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 Washington 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 13, 2024 05:30 | February 14, 2024 23:15 | 1d 17h | 3,879 | 18K |
| 2 | August 8, 2024 07:45 | August 11, 2024 03:15 | 2d 19h | 2,857 | 12K |
| 3 | May 31, 2024 14:00 | May 31, 2024 21:30 | 7h 30m | 1,928 | 1,577 |
| 4 | January 13, 2024 15:15 | January 15, 2024 00:00 | 1d 8h | 1,715 | 4,425 |
| 5 | July 2, 2024 12:30 | July 2, 2024 16:30 | 4h | 1,378 | 391 |
| 6 | January 21, 2024 04:00 | January 21, 2024 08:00 | 4h | 1,310 | 1,926 |
| 7 | June 30, 2024 00:45 | June 30, 2024 18:45 | 18h | 1,212 | 2,768 |
| 8 | April 30, 2024 23:30 | May 1, 2024 02:30 | 3h | 1,099 | 1,529 |
| 9 | July 23, 2024 08:30 | July 30, 2024 19:30 | 7d 11h | 1,036 | 1,799 |
| 10 | May 25, 2024 23:15 | May 26, 2024 17:30 | 18h 15m | 1,017 | 4,455 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 79 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Washington 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 |
| Hagerstown Light Department | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Williamsport - (MD) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 65,276 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county