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Who serves St. Mary's County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — St. Mary's County, MD
Last significant outage: Sep 26, 2026 — peaked at 651 customers, restored in ~5.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 16 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — St. Mary's County, MD
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
609 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
9 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3 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: ~20,346 customers out in September 2015, restored after about 1.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
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 St. Mary's County include Leonardtown, California, Callaway, Charlotte Hall, Golden Beach, Lexington Park, Mechanicsville and Piney Point. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in St. Mary's County, MD?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of St. Mary's include Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
