County annual report · FIPS 45041
2016 Florence County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Florence County, SC went without power for an average of 74.7 hours, a total of 4.1M customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 28th 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 Florence 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 17, 2016 04:00 | 8d 5h | 48,077 | 3.7M |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 05:30 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 12h 15m | 27,300 | 100K |
| 3 | September 2, 2016 10:30 | September 4, 2016 04:15 | 1d 17h | 8,952 | 96K |
| 4 | June 7, 2016 20:30 | June 7, 2016 22:45 | 2h 15m | 6,791 | 5,624 |
| 5 | July 11, 2016 22:00 | July 12, 2016 06:00 | 8h | 4,461 | 5,703 |
| 6 | July 1, 2016 18:45 | July 1, 2016 23:00 | 4h 15m | 4,237 | 6,571 |
| 7 | July 20, 2016 01:45 | July 20, 2016 22:45 | 21h | 3,856 | 14K |
| 8 | June 14, 2016 12:45 | June 14, 2016 18:45 | 6h | 3,315 | 1,093 |
| 9 | January 22, 2016 16:15 | January 24, 2016 03:30 | 1d 11h | 3,013 | 22K |
| 10 | July 22, 2016 11:30 | July 22, 2016 12:00 | 30m | 2,927 | 1,057 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 101 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Florence 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 |
| Santee Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 116.0 hrs | - | 3.0 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 54,564 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. Florence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Florence 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/florence-county