County annual report · FIPS 45075
2016 Orangeburg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orangeburg County, SC went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 581K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 353rd 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 Orangeburg 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 00:15 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 17h 30m | 12,550 | 56K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 15, 2016 13:00 | 6d 14h | 10,879 | 502K |
| 3 | May 9, 2016 13:00 | May 9, 2016 18:30 | 5h 30m | 7,762 | 7,777 |
| 4 | December 8, 2016 19:30 | December 8, 2016 20:45 | 1h 15m | 1,197 | 899 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 20:00 | February 25, 2016 01:00 | 5h | 820 | 802 |
| 6 | September 12, 2016 21:15 | September 13, 2016 03:15 | 6h | 677 | 1,767 |
| 7 | February 4, 2016 08:15 | February 4, 2016 19:30 | 11h 15m | 597 | 1,921 |
| 8 | March 15, 2016 00:45 | March 15, 2016 04:00 | 3h 15m | 595 | 1,292 |
| 9 | May 5, 2016 21:45 | May 5, 2016 22:00 | 15m | 551 | 138 |
| 10 | January 15, 2016 17:00 | January 15, 2016 20:45 | 3h 45m | 423 | 527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Orangeburg 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2016 | 23.2 hrs | 2.80 | 1.5 hrs | 1.30 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 4.4 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | - | 43 min | - |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) | 2016 | 70.3 hrs | 5.69 | 3.0 hrs | 2.16 |
| City of Orangeburg - (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 ÷ 58,624 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. Orangeburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orangeburg 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/orangeburg-county