County annual report · FIPS 45043
2016 Georgetown County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Georgetown County, SC went without power for an average of 19.4 hours, a total of 891K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 150th 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 Georgetown 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 22, 2016 08:45 | 13d 10h | 19,748 | 839K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 05:15 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 12h 30m | 9,022 | 20K |
| 3 | August 31, 2016 13:15 | August 31, 2016 16:00 | 2h 45m | 2,659 | 1,277 |
| 4 | July 9, 2016 23:30 | July 10, 2016 07:00 | 7h 30m | 2,402 | 3,418 |
| 5 | December 24, 2016 20:15 | December 24, 2016 22:15 | 2h | 1,740 | 3,480 |
| 6 | June 3, 2016 06:15 | June 3, 2016 08:30 | 2h 15m | 1,702 | 3,830 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 18:15 | July 29, 2016 01:45 | 7h 30m | 998 | 842 |
| 8 | September 2, 2016 20:15 | September 2, 2016 23:30 | 3h 15m | 950 | 1,619 |
| 9 | October 8, 2016 01:30 | October 8, 2016 03:00 | 1h 30m | 937 | 1,406 |
| 10 | January 1, 2016 00:00 | January 1, 2016 03:00 | 3h | 931 | 1,264 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 21 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Georgetown 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 | - |
| South Carolina Public Service Authority | 2016 | 35.5 hrs | 2.20 | 24 min | 0.40 |
| City of Georgetown - (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 ÷ 46,010 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. Georgetown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Georgetown 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/georgetown-county