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2016 Oconee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Oconee County, SC went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1670th 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 Oconee 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 | August 7, 2016 04:30 | August 7, 2016 05:45 | 1h 15m | 3,657 | 4,571 |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 18:45 | February 25, 2016 14:30 | 19h 45m | 2,573 | 5,861 |
| 3 | June 6, 2016 12:00 | June 6, 2016 13:45 | 1h 45m | 1,316 | 332 |
| 4 | June 9, 2016 18:30 | June 10, 2016 00:00 | 5h 30m | 930 | 1,169 |
| 5 | June 17, 2016 09:30 | June 17, 2016 12:15 | 2h 45m | 888 | 2,407 |
| 6 | September 14, 2016 19:15 | September 14, 2016 20:15 | 1h | 790 | 593 |
| 7 | June 27, 2016 18:15 | June 27, 2016 23:00 | 4h 45m | 575 | 875 |
| 8 | July 7, 2016 17:30 | July 7, 2016 19:30 | 2h | 564 | 695 |
| 9 | June 13, 2016 20:00 | June 13, 2016 22:45 | 2h 45m | 473 | 369 |
| 10 | November 8, 2016 04:00 | November 8, 2016 11:45 | 7h 45m | 470 | 2,939 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 26 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Oconee 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2016 | 6.2 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Seneca - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Westminster - (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 ÷ 40,425 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. Oconee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oconee 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/oconee-county