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2025 Dorchester County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Dorchester County, MD went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Maryland average 4.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2221st 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 Dorchester 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 | January 29, 2025 00:15 | January 29, 2025 03:15 | 3h | 6,528 | 20K |
| 2 | November 14, 2025 12:15 | November 14, 2025 14:15 | 2h | 1,635 | 999 |
| 3 | July 9, 2025 13:15 | July 9, 2025 19:00 | 5h 45m | 1,591 | 1,168 |
| 4 | April 4, 2025 13:00 | April 4, 2025 18:30 | 5h 30m | 1,449 | 392 |
| 5 | January 29, 2025 11:15 | January 29, 2025 11:30 | 15m | 937 | 234 |
| 6 | December 17, 2025 13:15 | December 17, 2025 18:00 | 4h 45m | 928 | 482 |
| 7 | January 23, 2025 11:30 | January 23, 2025 19:00 | 7h 30m | 767 | 396 |
| 8 | May 5, 2025 17:15 | May 5, 2025 19:45 | 2h 30m | 744 | 936 |
| 9 | March 17, 2025 00:00 | March 17, 2025 04:45 | 4h 45m | 638 | 1,472 |
| 10 | July 5, 2025 08:45 | July 5, 2025 13:30 | 4h 45m | 612 | 474 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 33 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Dorchester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,093 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. Dorchester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dorchester 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/dorchester-county