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2015 Cherokee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cherokee County, SC went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.5 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2095th 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 Cherokee 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 | February 19, 2015 17:30 | February 19, 2015 19:15 | 1h 45m | 1,171 | 588 |
| 2 | August 3, 2015 20:15 | August 3, 2015 22:45 | 2h 30m | 717 | 1,276 |
| 3 | August 21, 2015 13:00 | August 21, 2015 16:00 | 3h | 715 | 282 |
| 4 | June 20, 2015 19:00 | June 21, 2015 10:15 | 15h 15m | 564 | 2,151 |
| 5 | October 3, 2015 07:30 | October 3, 2015 23:00 | 15h 30m | 496 | 1,179 |
| 6 | June 10, 2015 04:00 | June 10, 2015 07:30 | 3h 30m | 488 | 872 |
| 7 | September 24, 2015 23:15 | September 25, 2015 06:15 | 7h | 441 | 778 |
| 8 | September 12, 2015 21:15 | September 13, 2015 06:30 | 9h 15m | 355 | 1,003 |
| 9 | September 26, 2015 09:15 | September 26, 2015 21:30 | 12h 15m | 214 | 1,184 |
| 10 | June 2, 2015 20:30 | June 3, 2015 01:00 | 4h 30m | 186 | 228 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 14 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Cherokee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| York Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lockhart Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gaffney - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,741 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county