County annual report · FIPS 45021
2016 Cherokee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cherokee County, SC went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1666th 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 Cherokee 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 | July 30, 2016 09:30 | July 31, 2016 07:30 | 22h | 2,533 | 5,078 |
| 2 | January 6, 2016 17:00 | January 6, 2016 17:30 | 30m | 2,531 | 633 |
| 3 | April 30, 2016 23:45 | May 1, 2016 23:00 | 23h 15m | 1,968 | 6,504 |
| 4 | July 21, 2016 23:45 | July 22, 2016 01:00 | 1h 15m | 1,693 | 1,693 |
| 5 | May 5, 2016 19:45 | May 6, 2016 05:30 | 9h 45m | 1,692 | 2,187 |
| 6 | July 28, 2016 20:30 | July 28, 2016 21:15 | 45m | 1,182 | 887 |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 16:30 | February 26, 2016 22:00 | 2d 5h | 1,143 | 9,166 |
| 8 | February 2, 2016 20:15 | February 3, 2016 03:45 | 7h 30m | 509 | 3,724 |
| 9 | October 10, 2016 20:00 | October 10, 2016 21:00 | 1h | 433 | 433 |
| 10 | February 3, 2016 13:45 | February 3, 2016 18:15 | 4h 30m | 365 | 553 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 26 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| York Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lockhart Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gaffney - (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 ÷ 39,741 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county