County annual report · FIPS 45059
2016 Laurens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Laurens County, SC went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1691st 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 Laurens 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 | July 8, 2016 01:45 | July 8, 2016 23:45 | 22h | 2,016 | 18K |
| 2 | July 16, 2016 19:15 | July 17, 2016 02:15 | 7h | 2,010 | 1,354 |
| 3 | May 19, 2016 14:30 | May 20, 2016 04:45 | 14h 15m | 1,991 | 2,016 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 09:15 | February 26, 2016 03:15 | 1d 18h | 1,785 | 7,973 |
| 5 | October 8, 2016 07:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 10h 45m | 1,756 | 1,172 |
| 6 | July 18, 2016 17:45 | July 18, 2016 19:15 | 1h 30m | 1,505 | 1,437 |
| 7 | November 14, 2016 01:00 | November 14, 2016 03:45 | 2h 45m | 1,497 | 1,873 |
| 8 | October 31, 2016 12:00 | October 31, 2016 13:45 | 1h 45m | 1,365 | 901 |
| 9 | August 10, 2016 20:15 | August 10, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 1,290 | 1,635 |
| 10 | July 11, 2016 19:30 | July 12, 2016 00:45 | 5h 15m | 1,235 | 1,589 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 51 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Laurens 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 |
| Clinton Combined Utility Sys | 2013 | 50 min | 0.87 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (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 ÷ 71,549 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens 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/laurens-county