County annual report · FIPS 45013
2016 Beaufort County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Beaufort County, SC went without power for an average of 29.7 hours, a total of 3.8M customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 98th 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 Beaufort 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 7, 2016 17:15 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 1d | 47,989 | 550K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 18, 2016 02:30 | 9d 4h | 47,719 | 3.2M |
| 3 | September 13, 2016 11:15 | September 13, 2016 22:45 | 11h 30m | 7,678 | 2,108 |
| 4 | October 18, 2016 10:15 | October 20, 2016 01:15 | 1d 15h | 1,824 | 2,623 |
| 5 | December 6, 2016 02:15 | December 6, 2016 06:00 | 3h 45m | 1,824 | 510 |
| 6 | May 9, 2016 12:15 | May 9, 2016 23:30 | 11h 15m | 1,814 | 534 |
| 7 | November 23, 2016 14:30 | November 24, 2016 02:15 | 11h 45m | 1,731 | 1,574 |
| 8 | May 4, 2016 01:30 | May 4, 2016 09:30 | 8h | 1,338 | 5,006 |
| 9 | September 10, 2016 12:45 | September 10, 2016 13:00 | 15m | 1,185 | 296 |
| 10 | February 24, 2016 13:15 | February 25, 2016 00:30 | 11h 15m | 958 | 2,260 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 54 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Beaufort 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2016 | 23.2 hrs | 2.80 | 1.5 hrs | 1.30 |
| Palmetto Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 46.8 hrs | 2.36 | 41 min | 0.71 |
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 ÷ 127,289 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort 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/beaufort-county