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2016 Dorchester County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dorchester County, SC went without power for an average of 19.2 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 154th 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 Dorchester 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 14, 2016 09:45 | 5d 11h | 50,197 | 1.2M |
| 2 | October 7, 2016 21:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 20h | 45,215 | 194K |
| 3 | May 4, 2016 02:15 | May 4, 2016 13:30 | 11h 15m | 7,476 | 5,842 |
| 4 | August 18, 2016 22:30 | August 19, 2016 05:00 | 6h 30m | 3,046 | 2,481 |
| 5 | December 27, 2016 12:45 | December 27, 2016 15:15 | 2h 30m | 2,812 | 980 |
| 6 | May 3, 2016 08:30 | May 3, 2016 08:45 | 15m | 2,247 | 562 |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 04:15 | February 16, 2016 06:15 | 2h | 2,216 | 2,886 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 14:45 | February 25, 2016 03:30 | 12h 45m | 1,995 | 1,073 |
| 9 | August 24, 2016 20:15 | August 24, 2016 21:30 | 1h 15m | 1,787 | 778 |
| 10 | July 31, 2016 17:30 | August 1, 2016 01:00 | 7h 30m | 1,401 | 1,843 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 71 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Dorchester 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 |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | - | 43 min | - |
| Berkeley Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 35.7 hrs | 3.44 | 3.0 hrs | 1.84 |
| Coastal Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 57.7 hrs | 4.61 | 3.9 hrs | 2.54 |
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 ÷ 73,269 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. Dorchester County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dorchester 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/dorchester-county