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2025 Charles County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Charles County, MD went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 181K customer-hours (Maryland average 4.2 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2243rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Charles County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 7, 2025 18:00 | July 7, 2025 23:00 | 5h | 8,116 | 2,884 |
| 2 | November 29, 2025 13:15 | November 29, 2025 19:30 | 6h 15m | 7,216 | 7,201 |
| 3 | June 15, 2025 10:00 | June 16, 2025 14:00 | 1d 4h | 7,189 | 21K |
| 4 | August 20, 2025 12:45 | August 20, 2025 20:00 | 7h 15m | 4,897 | 1,586 |
| 5 | June 19, 2025 14:00 | June 20, 2025 08:45 | 18h 45m | 4,355 | 4,743 |
| 6 | October 29, 2025 09:45 | October 29, 2025 10:30 | 45m | 3,482 | 1,740 |
| 7 | July 9, 2025 19:00 | July 10, 2025 17:30 | 22h 30m | 3,308 | 9,579 |
| 8 | August 11, 2025 12:00 | August 12, 2025 06:15 | 18h 15m | 3,125 | 5,867 |
| 9 | April 12, 2025 21:30 | April 13, 2025 03:15 | 5h 45m | 3,091 | 6,607 |
| 10 | December 27, 2025 14:15 | December 27, 2025 17:15 | 3h | 2,459 | 2,917 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 116 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Charles County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 2.4 hrs | 1.31 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 73,494 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. Charles County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charles County, MD annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/maryland/charles-county