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2024 Wicomico County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wicomico County, MD went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2592nd 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 Wicomico 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 | June 26, 2024 19:45 | June 27, 2024 22:00 | 1d 2h | 5,841 | 19K |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 22:15 | January 11, 2024 20:30 | 1d 22h | 1,428 | 11K |
| 3 | April 24, 2024 12:15 | April 24, 2024 20:45 | 8h 30m | 1,208 | 660 |
| 4 | October 24, 2024 02:30 | October 24, 2024 05:30 | 3h | 1,052 | 670 |
| 5 | August 3, 2024 23:45 | August 4, 2024 19:15 | 19h 30m | 1,039 | 3,884 |
| 6 | October 10, 2024 22:15 | October 11, 2024 14:00 | 15h 45m | 776 | 2,956 |
| 7 | August 19, 2024 00:15 | August 19, 2024 17:45 | 17h 30m | 663 | 3,428 |
| 8 | January 29, 2024 13:15 | January 29, 2024 19:15 | 6h | 653 | 678 |
| 9 | January 15, 2024 15:30 | January 15, 2024 22:00 | 6h 30m | 650 | 861 |
| 10 | October 27, 2024 17:15 | October 27, 2024 21:45 | 4h 30m | 618 | 1,391 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 62 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Wicomico 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 ÷ 61,546 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. Wicomico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wicomico 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/wicomico-county