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2025 Howard County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Howard County, MD went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 480K customer-hours (Maryland average 4.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 24 Maryland counties and 1963rd 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 Howard 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 | February 14, 2025 10:15 | February 24, 2025 11:30 | 10d 1h | 16,396 | 187K |
| 2 | May 8, 2025 12:00 | May 22, 2025 11:30 | 13d 23h | 5,271 | 56K |
| 3 | July 8, 2025 11:45 | July 10, 2025 21:45 | 2d 10h | 5,071 | 17K |
| 4 | July 16, 2025 13:45 | August 10, 2025 23:15 | 25d 9h | 3,468 | 24K |
| 5 | December 29, 2025 14:45 | January 1, 2026 00:00 | 2d 9h | 3,083 | 32K |
| 6 | August 11, 2025 13:15 | August 12, 2025 04:00 | 14h 45m | 2,918 | 1,658 |
| 7 | July 11, 2025 09:30 | July 14, 2025 00:15 | 2d 14h | 2,381 | 5,528 |
| 8 | January 1, 2025 15:00 | January 2, 2025 14:30 | 23h 30m | 2,151 | 4,883 |
| 9 | June 18, 2025 06:45 | June 27, 2025 18:45 | 9d 12h | 2,101 | 21K |
| 10 | November 5, 2025 13:00 | November 8, 2025 18:15 | 3d 5h | 1,538 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 67 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.32 | 3.4 hrs | 1.28 |
| Baltimore Gas & Electric Co | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 0.80 | 67 min | 0.63 |
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 ÷ 146,094 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county