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2015 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 197K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.5 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1016th 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 Pickens 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 17, 2015 03:15 | February 19, 2015 06:30 | 2d 3h | 6,638 | 131K |
| 2 | May 26, 2015 21:15 | May 27, 2015 23:30 | 1d 2h | 2,415 | 6,457 |
| 3 | June 19, 2015 15:45 | June 20, 2015 02:30 | 10h 45m | 1,536 | 947 |
| 4 | August 27, 2015 01:00 | August 27, 2015 05:15 | 4h 15m | 1,444 | 401 |
| 5 | November 6, 2015 04:45 | November 6, 2015 06:30 | 1h 45m | 1,211 | 1,989 |
| 6 | July 19, 2015 03:00 | July 20, 2015 15:30 | 1d 12h | 1,106 | 5,549 |
| 7 | October 13, 2015 21:15 | October 14, 2015 08:30 | 11h 15m | 905 | 4,760 |
| 8 | June 3, 2015 22:15 | June 4, 2015 21:15 | 23h | 886 | 3,088 |
| 9 | October 13, 2015 13:30 | October 13, 2015 19:45 | 6h 15m | 883 | 888 |
| 10 | June 16, 2015 05:45 | June 16, 2015 08:15 | 2h 30m | 880 | 2,200 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 39 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Pickens 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2015 | 6.3 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2015 | 68 min | 0.82 | 68 min | 0.82 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 74,039 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county