Garrett County, Maryland Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Garrett County, Maryland had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.69 times the US outage time per person and 4.30 times the Maryland rate. It ranks 1 of 24 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Febhardest months

December and February made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 17, 2019, reached 8,670 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 90.0 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	74,661	51	4
2016	48,322	33	4
2017	48,134	24	3
2018	129,204	48	1
2019	428,606	32	5
2020	64,852	29	2
2021	67,258	27	1
2022	115,724	32	4
2023	76,939	32	2

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
Dec 17, 2019	90.0	8,670	254,712
Mar 2, 2018	68.0	2,240	63,803
Feb 24, 2019	52.5	3,568	61,890
Feb 12, 2019	52.2	2,627	49,187
Mar 3, 2023	45.2	3,491	46,426

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.