Worcester County, Maryland Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Worcester County, Maryland had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.62 times the US outage time per person and 1.59 times the Maryland rate. It ranks 5 of 24 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

27 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Febhardest months

January and February made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 8, 2017, reached 18,210 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 4.8 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	52,325	44	0
2016	113,636	74	1
2017	208,325	68	1
2018	113,508	43	1
2019	41,070	38	0
2020	95,379	47	1
2021	31,217	25	0
2022	59,298	44	1
2023	31,290	33	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
Feb 8, 2017	4.8	18,210	84,578
Aug 4, 2020	27.0	11,360	53,154
Jan 23, 2016	10.0	6,883	38,178
Jan 3, 2017	2.2	18,536	28,060
Mar 3, 2018	15.5	4,115	27,094

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.