Power outages in Maryland
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
92
customers reported out statewide · 6 counties reporting
Updated 11:43 PM EDT.
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Maryland counties (24)
Utility coverage in Maryland
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Baltimore Gas & Electric (MD) · Pepco (DC/MD) · Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy MD) · Delmarva Power (DE/MD) · FirstEnergy (all states)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Maryland.
Historical outage patterns in Maryland
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 19,091 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Maryland between 2014 and 2025 across all 24 counties — 164 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 4 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (34% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2016.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~120,582 customers out in Montgomery County in November 2022, restored after about 6.5 hr.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: March 2018 (7 counties) and August 2020 (5 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Baltimore County (~7.3 hr typical), Baltimore (~5.8 hr typical) and Anne Arundel County (~4.8 hr typical) — against ~4 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Maryland?
Electric utilities we track in Maryland include Baltimore Gas & Electric, Pepco, Potomac Edison, Delmarva Power and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.