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2024 Essex County, MA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Essex County, MA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 704K customer-hours (Massachusetts average 1.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 14 Massachusetts counties and 2030th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Massachusetts customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex 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 | October 13, 2024 11:45 | October 15, 2024 04:30 | 1d 16h | 14,779 | 15K |
| 2 | April 4, 2024 01:45 | April 7, 2024 03:45 | 3d 2h | 12,904 | 117K |
| 3 | January 10, 2024 00:15 | January 11, 2024 19:00 | 1d 18h | 6,563 | 32K |
| 4 | February 29, 2024 04:15 | March 1, 2024 03:00 | 22h 45m | 6,393 | 19K |
| 5 | September 25, 2024 11:15 | September 25, 2024 15:15 | 4h | 5,630 | 5,082 |
| 6 | November 17, 2024 12:15 | November 18, 2024 01:00 | 12h 45m | 4,884 | 7,630 |
| 7 | January 7, 2024 06:30 | January 9, 2024 23:30 | 2d 17h | 4,711 | 67K |
| 8 | November 1, 2024 20:00 | November 2, 2024 19:45 | 23h 45m | 4,500 | 3,806 |
| 9 | August 10, 2024 10:15 | August 11, 2024 04:15 | 18h | 4,287 | 5,504 |
| 10 | July 31, 2024 18:45 | August 1, 2024 01:45 | 7h | 3,991 | 5,876 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 167 reached 100+ customers, 56 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Electric Co | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 1.00 | 1.5 hrs | 0.84 |
| Town of Reading - (MA) | 2024 | 46 min | 0.66 | 23 min | 0.27 |
| City of Marblehead - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Peabody - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Danvers | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Georgetown - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Groveland - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ipswich - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Merrimac - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Middleton - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Rowley - (MA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Massachusetts's customers in 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 216,314 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex County, MA 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/massachusetts/essex-county