Cecil County, Maryland Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cecil County, Maryland had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 2.46 times the Maryland rate. It ranks 2 of 24 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 14, 2017, reached 19,271 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.2 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	298,746	62	4
2016	246,071	78	4
2017	353,664	63	1
2018	282,598	61	1
2019	187,249	83	3
2020	253,567	95	2
2021	104,319	82	3
2022	324,074	92	1
2023	204,594	78	3

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
Mar 14, 2017	38.2	19,271	262,796
Jul 12, 2022	65.8	12,424	249,325
Mar 2, 2018	55.5	18,964	233,748
Jun 23, 2015	20.0	19,264	167,705
Aug 4, 2020	35.0	15,015	164,254

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.