County annual report · FIPS 45045
2016 Greenville County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Greenville County, SC went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 657th 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 Greenville 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 | January 22, 2016 10:00 | January 25, 2016 08:15 | 2d 22h | 13,995 | 321K |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 14:00 | February 27, 2016 06:30 | 2d 16h | 12,810 | 152K |
| 3 | November 30, 2016 08:15 | December 3, 2016 05:00 | 2d 20h | 8,795 | 133K |
| 4 | June 11, 2016 06:30 | June 12, 2016 02:15 | 19h 45m | 7,180 | 7,451 |
| 5 | December 29, 2016 13:00 | December 30, 2016 09:00 | 20h | 4,321 | 8,257 |
| 6 | August 31, 2016 11:30 | September 1, 2016 03:15 | 15h 45m | 4,154 | 9,564 |
| 7 | May 26, 2016 12:15 | May 28, 2016 09:30 | 1d 21h | 3,901 | 9,051 |
| 8 | May 2, 2016 19:45 | May 3, 2016 05:15 | 9h 30m | 3,713 | 2,599 |
| 9 | September 6, 2016 08:30 | September 7, 2016 03:30 | 19h | 3,552 | 13K |
| 10 | July 7, 2016 12:00 | July 10, 2016 17:30 | 3d 5h | 2,909 | 36K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 173 reached 100+ customers, 51 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 Greenville 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.26 | 89 min | 1.12 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2016 | 6.2 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greer Commission of Public Wks | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 208,040 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. Greenville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Greenville 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/greenville-county