Caroline County, Maryland Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Caroline County, Maryland had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.29 times the US outage time per person and 0.73 times the Maryland rate. It ranks 19 of 24 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 4,051 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	10,134	16	0
2016	40,864	38	0
2017	41,602	40	1
2018	8,858	15	0
2019	21,608	24	1
2020	55,806	20	1
2021	8,048	19	0
2022	15,938	26	0
2023	13,829	37	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020	28.8	4,051	42,105
Feb 25, 2016	5.2	2,827	9,957
Jul 12, 2022	4.2	3,358	8,350
Jun 19, 2017	6.0	4,754	7,924
May 27, 2019	10.0	1,184	5,901

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.