Queen Anne's County, Maryland Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Queen Anne's County, Maryland had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.42 times the US outage time per person and 1.08 times the Maryland rate. It ranks 10 of 24 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

25 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 24, 2017, reached 8,914 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 25.2 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	38,599	35	0
2016	54,574	43	0
2017	211,506	56	2
2018	47,538	40	0
2019	33,010	37	1
2020	52,781	20	1
2021	16,895	35	0
2022	24,822	40	0
2023	20,172	28	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
Jul 24, 2017	25.2	8,914	141,534
Aug 4, 2020	21.8	5,697	42,284
Jan 7, 2017	11.2	7,017	24,042
Mar 3, 2018	3.5	3,346	10,612
May 27, 2019	10.2	1,860	9,144

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.