County annual report · FIPS 45039
2016 Fairfield County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fairfield County, SC went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 967th 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 Fairfield 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 | February 24, 2016 17:30 | February 25, 2016 20:15 | 1d 2h | 1,715 | 8,836 |
| 2 | February 2, 2016 20:30 | February 2, 2016 22:45 | 2h 15m | 1,123 | 285 |
| 3 | August 16, 2016 18:15 | August 16, 2016 23:00 | 4h 45m | 907 | 3,893 |
| 4 | September 28, 2016 01:30 | September 28, 2016 04:45 | 3h 15m | 907 | 1,984 |
| 5 | September 20, 2016 00:15 | September 20, 2016 11:15 | 11h | 885 | 1,648 |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 20:45 | July 7, 2016 22:45 | 2h | 682 | 1,364 |
| 7 | April 28, 2016 21:00 | April 29, 2016 05:00 | 8h | 680 | 3,873 |
| 8 | May 21, 2016 16:00 | May 21, 2016 23:15 | 7h 15m | 680 | 4,930 |
| 9 | February 3, 2016 20:30 | February 3, 2016 22:00 | 1h 30m | 678 | 1,017 |
| 10 | October 8, 2016 08:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 9h 45m | 506 | 2,644 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Fairfield 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 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2016 | 23.2 hrs | 2.80 | 1.5 hrs | 1.30 |
| Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Winnsboro - (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 ÷ 13,983 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. Fairfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fairfield 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/fairfield-county