Wicomico County, Maryland Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wicomico County, Maryland had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.25 times the US outage time per person and 0.65 times the Maryland rate. It ranks 23 of 24 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

31 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 14,712 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Maryland counties

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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	46,988	39	0
2016	74,670	77	1
2017	80,950	60	1
2018	109,300	44	2
2019	48,068	45	0
2020	137,042	41	1
2021	25,109	30	0
2022	42,111	32	1
2023	29,224	41	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	30.8	14,712	114,192
Mar 2, 2018	11.8	17,135	55,478
Jul 13, 2022	6.8	4,130	15,680
Jul 18, 2019	6.5	3,360	13,576
May 2, 2018	1.5	8,449	9,623

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.