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2024 Worcester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Worcester County, MD went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 58K customer-hours (Maryland average 2.8 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2458th 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 Worcester 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 | April 24, 2024 11:45 | April 27, 2024 10:15 | 2d 22h | 4,074 | 3,028 |
| 2 | September 29, 2024 13:15 | September 29, 2024 14:15 | 1h | 1,480 | 1,110 |
| 3 | July 13, 2024 02:15 | July 13, 2024 05:45 | 3h 30m | 1,371 | 1,999 |
| 4 | May 22, 2024 04:15 | May 22, 2024 06:30 | 2h 15m | 1,235 | 2,779 |
| 5 | February 13, 2024 12:30 | February 13, 2024 16:45 | 4h 15m | 1,073 | 1,509 |
| 6 | October 5, 2024 04:30 | October 5, 2024 09:45 | 5h 15m | 848 | 2,018 |
| 7 | June 27, 2024 00:00 | June 27, 2024 13:45 | 13h 45m | 766 | 3,700 |
| 8 | October 31, 2024 13:15 | October 31, 2024 17:00 | 3h 45m | 666 | 501 |
| 9 | September 4, 2024 13:30 | September 4, 2024 20:45 | 7h 15m | 664 | 357 |
| 10 | August 13, 2024 13:15 | August 13, 2024 18:15 | 5h | 663 | 626 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 41 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 Worcester 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 |
| Town of Berlin - (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 ÷ 31,542 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. Worcester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Worcester 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/worcester-county