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2015 Beaufort County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Beaufort County, SC went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.5 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1731st of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 22, 2015 19:15 | April 22, 2015 22:45 | 3h 30m | 8,670 | 2,192 |
| 2 | January 29, 2015 15:00 | January 29, 2015 18:00 | 3h | 5,853 | 6,694 |
| 3 | July 21, 2015 11:00 | July 24, 2015 06:15 | 2d 19h | 3,392 | 12K |
| 4 | April 19, 2015 21:00 | April 20, 2015 05:45 | 8h 45m | 2,807 | 5,126 |
| 5 | August 18, 2015 12:15 | August 18, 2015 21:15 | 9h | 2,806 | 737 |
| 6 | March 13, 2015 17:30 | March 14, 2015 01:30 | 8h | 2,789 | 3,350 |
| 7 | August 20, 2015 19:00 | August 21, 2015 17:30 | 22h 30m | 2,672 | 4,474 |
| 8 | July 19, 2015 18:00 | July 20, 2015 04:00 | 10h | 1,899 | 5,348 |
| 9 | November 30, 2015 13:15 | November 30, 2015 18:45 | 5h 30m | 1,887 | 4,156 |
| 10 | August 27, 2015 10:45 | August 28, 2015 02:00 | 15h 15m | 1,843 | 2,590 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 87 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.62 | 1.6 hrs | 1.34 |
| Palmetto Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 58 min | 0.90 | 43 min | 0.66 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of South Carolina's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 127,289 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, SC annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/south-carolina/beaufort-county