County annual report · FIPS 45061
2016 Lee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lee County, SC went without power for an average of 81.5 hours, a total of 463K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 26th 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 Lee 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 14, 2016 22:15 | 5d 23h | 5,517 | 370K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 07:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 10h 45m | 5,511 | 21K |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 18:00 | February 25, 2016 15:00 | 21h | 3,919 | 3,454 |
| 4 | March 23, 2016 14:45 | March 23, 2016 15:00 | 15m | 3,914 | 979 |
| 5 | September 2, 2016 13:00 | September 4, 2016 20:15 | 2d 7h | 1,783 | 36K |
| 6 | November 19, 2016 20:45 | November 20, 2016 00:00 | 3h 15m | 1,192 | 1,798 |
| 7 | July 5, 2016 22:30 | July 6, 2016 06:30 | 8h | 1,169 | 3,778 |
| 8 | August 10, 2016 09:00 | August 10, 2016 10:45 | 1h 45m | 884 | 1,537 |
| 9 | July 19, 2016 20:15 | July 20, 2016 02:30 | 6h 15m | 654 | 1,380 |
| 10 | May 12, 2016 00:00 | May 12, 2016 07:00 | 7h | 581 | 3,418 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 34 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Lee 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Camden | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,675 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county