County annual report · FIPS 45001
2016 Abbeville County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Abbeville County, SC went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 5,832 customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1973rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Abbeville County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 2, 2016 04:30 | October 2, 2016 05:45 | 1h 15m | 343 | 331 |
| 2 | April 1, 2016 18:45 | April 1, 2016 20:15 | 1h 30m | 342 | 417 |
| 3 | August 18, 2016 19:30 | August 18, 2016 21:15 | 1h 45m | 302 | 529 |
| 4 | December 16, 2016 08:15 | December 16, 2016 13:45 | 5h 30m | 299 | 576 |
| 5 | May 10, 2016 18:45 | May 10, 2016 20:45 | 2h | 298 | 596 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 14:15 | February 25, 2016 17:00 | 1d 2h | 186 | 1,491 |
| 7 | December 29, 2016 18:15 | December 29, 2016 22:45 | 4h 30m | 148 | 250 |
| 8 | September 10, 2016 18:45 | September 10, 2016 21:45 | 3h | 138 | 292 |
| 9 | October 8, 2016 10:15 | October 8, 2016 15:00 | 4h 45m | 82 | 151 |
| 10 | March 1, 2016 12:15 | March 1, 2016 15:15 | 3h | 78 | 206 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Abbeville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2016 | 23.2 hrs | 2.80 | 1.5 hrs | 1.30 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.26 | 89 min | 1.12 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Abbeville - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Due West - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,846 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. Abbeville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Abbeville County, SC annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/south-carolina/abbeville-county