Power outages in Charles County, MD
We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Charles County yet. Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc serves this county.
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Southern Maryland Elec Coop Incno live feedServes this county, per federal utility records.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
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Outage history in Charles County
2014–2025 recordCharles County averaged 29 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Maryland counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 30. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 8.5 hours, starting June 15, 2025.
The largest on record began June 21, 2015, with 22,010 customers out at once.
29significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.1.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.3.5 dayslongest on record (January 2022)
22,010most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| June 21, 2015 | 22,010 | 7 hours | 50,481 |
| July 29, 2023 | 20,058 | 23 hours | 248,037 |
| January 3, 2022 | 17,414 | 3.5 days | 471,783 |
| February 25, 2017 | 14,108 | 3 hours | 25,559 |
| March 2, 2018 | 12,269 | 2.7 days | 326,379 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
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