When will the power be back in Howard County, MD?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Maryland
11
customers reported out in Howard County, MD
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Baltimore Gas & Electric): Oct 4, 2:30 AM EDT · its own reports for places here carry 2 different times, the earliest Oct 4, 2:15 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: ~1.8 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 6 customers an hour)
🎯 Likely 30 min–7 hr — based on how accurate our past estimates like this have been.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 11:33 PM EDT.
411 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 33 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Ellicott City — 10 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 2:30 AM EDT
Laurel — <5 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 2:15 AM EDT
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Who serves Howard County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Baltimore Gas & Electric and Potomac Edison, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Howard County, MD
Last significant outage: Sep 22, 2026 — peaked at 237 customers, restored in ~16 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 24 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 13, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Howard County, MD
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
822 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 5 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Maryland norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4 hr.
Largest on record: ~23,403 customers out in June 2016, restored after about 29.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Howard County include Columbia, Elkridge, Ellicott City, Fulton, Highland, Ilchester, Jessup and Lisbon. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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