County annual report · FIPS 45031
2016 Darlington County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Darlington County, SC went without power for an average of 74.3 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 29th 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 Darlington 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 8, 2016 22:30 | October 16, 2016 00:00 | 7d 1h | 20,197 | 1.2M |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 09:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 8h 45m | 13,315 | 61K |
| 3 | May 17, 2016 08:30 | May 17, 2016 10:00 | 1h 30m | 7,662 | 9,505 |
| 4 | September 2, 2016 15:15 | September 4, 2016 13:30 | 1d 22h | 3,802 | 27K |
| 5 | January 22, 2016 18:30 | January 24, 2016 01:00 | 1d 6h | 3,337 | 38K |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 21:15 | July 9, 2016 15:00 | 1d 17h | 2,620 | 22K |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 13:45 | February 25, 2016 22:45 | 1d 9h | 1,666 | 8,564 |
| 8 | January 19, 2016 07:45 | January 19, 2016 09:00 | 1h 15m | 1,527 | 1,530 |
| 9 | June 25, 2016 19:15 | June 26, 2016 05:00 | 9h 45m | 1,204 | 1,409 |
| 10 | May 17, 2016 19:00 | May 18, 2016 00:15 | 5h 15m | 1,098 | 2,634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 54 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Darlington 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 Progress - (NC) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,211 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. Darlington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Darlington 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/darlington-county