County annual report · FIPS 45057
2016 Lancaster County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lancaster County, SC went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1406th 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 Lancaster 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 | June 5, 2016 00:00 | June 5, 2016 09:45 | 9h 45m | 2,409 | 8,019 |
| 2 | October 13, 2016 14:15 | October 14, 2016 03:30 | 13h 15m | 2,067 | 542 |
| 3 | March 19, 2016 12:30 | March 19, 2016 15:00 | 2h 30m | 1,924 | 2,887 |
| 4 | May 22, 2016 07:15 | May 22, 2016 07:30 | 15m | 1,917 | 479 |
| 5 | May 2, 2016 20:45 | May 4, 2016 04:30 | 1d 7h | 1,728 | 9,565 |
| 6 | October 8, 2016 10:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 7h 45m | 1,525 | 5,087 |
| 7 | April 5, 2016 00:45 | April 5, 2016 02:30 | 1h 45m | 1,479 | 2,588 |
| 8 | February 10, 2016 20:00 | February 10, 2016 22:00 | 2h | 1,467 | 1,102 |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 12:00 | February 26, 2016 12:00 | 2d | 1,230 | 19K |
| 10 | June 15, 2016 14:45 | June 15, 2016 20:00 | 5h 15m | 1,117 | 320 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 52 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Lancaster 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 |
| Lynches River Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 7.2 hrs | 1.84 | 2.5 hrs | 1.24 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| York Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 52,274 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. Lancaster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lancaster 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/lancaster-county