County annual report · FIPS 45007
2016 Anderson County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Anderson County, SC went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 307K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 983rd 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 Anderson 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 | August 25, 2016 13:45 | August 26, 2016 20:45 | 1d 7h | 9,515 | 23K |
| 2 | March 15, 2016 13:45 | March 15, 2016 23:00 | 9h 15m | 3,956 | 18K |
| 3 | January 22, 2016 06:45 | January 23, 2016 21:00 | 1d 14h | 3,659 | 14K |
| 4 | May 12, 2016 16:45 | May 14, 2016 02:30 | 1d 9h | 3,300 | 25K |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 12:15 | February 26, 2016 04:15 | 1d 16h | 3,273 | 42K |
| 6 | March 20, 2016 05:30 | March 20, 2016 07:45 | 2h 15m | 2,881 | 5,762 |
| 7 | March 13, 2016 08:30 | March 13, 2016 11:00 | 2h 30m | 1,939 | 3,889 |
| 8 | November 11, 2016 13:00 | November 11, 2016 18:30 | 5h 30m | 1,888 | 3,393 |
| 9 | December 24, 2016 13:30 | December 24, 2016 19:45 | 6h 15m | 1,748 | 2,199 |
| 10 | November 7, 2016 12:30 | November 8, 2016 02:45 | 14h 15m | 1,747 | 4,002 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 113 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Anderson 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.26 | 89 min | 1.12 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2016 | 6.2 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 101,520 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. Anderson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Anderson 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/anderson-county