Baltimore City, Maryland Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Baltimore City, Maryland had 1 major outage from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.90 times the Maryland rate. It ranks 15 of 24 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 9years with a major outage

9 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 6, 2019, reached 8,212 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 9.0 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	381,438	726	0
2016	396,310	1040	0
2017	284,797	643	0
2018	622,726	1543	0
2019	554,813	1327	1
2020	451,120	1118	0
2021	596,910	1549	0
2022	610,557	1696	0
2023	538,190	1448	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 6, 2019	9.0	8,212	30,232
May 14, 2015	12.5	1,438	17,975
Mar 18, 2015	7.8	3,339	15,069
Dec 7, 2019	15.2	2,100	14,482
Jul 2, 2018	11.8	2,150	11,448

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.