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2015 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.5 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1618th 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 Saluda 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 | December 22, 2015 12:00 | December 22, 2015 13:30 | 1h 30m | 2,072 | 1,046 |
| 2 | August 31, 2015 01:15 | August 31, 2015 03:30 | 2h 15m | 1,088 | 1,075 |
| 3 | January 23, 2015 14:45 | January 23, 2015 15:00 | 15m | 1,080 | 270 |
| 4 | August 6, 2015 21:15 | August 7, 2015 01:45 | 4h 30m | 680 | 1,016 |
| 5 | October 3, 2015 23:45 | October 5, 2015 23:15 | 1d 23h | 441 | 4,725 |
| 6 | February 17, 2015 05:45 | February 19, 2015 00:15 | 1d 18h | 327 | 1,998 |
| 7 | November 19, 2015 02:30 | November 19, 2015 06:15 | 3h 45m | 251 | 618 |
| 8 | February 15, 2015 05:15 | February 15, 2015 11:30 | 6h 15m | 185 | 1,127 |
| 9 | January 6, 2015 06:45 | January 6, 2015 11:00 | 4h 15m | 157 | 332 |
| 10 | February 28, 2015 14:00 | February 28, 2015 15:00 | 1h | 121 | 43 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Saluda 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 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.62 | 1.6 hrs | 1.34 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,824 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. Saluda County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saluda 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/saluda-county