County annual report · FIPS 45077
2016 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1488th 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 Pickens 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 9, 2016 01:45 | July 10, 2016 02:30 | 1d | 3,291 | 22K |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 12:45 | January 24, 2016 18:45 | 2d 6h | 2,069 | 33K |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 12:45 | February 26, 2016 11:45 | 1d 23h | 1,572 | 15K |
| 4 | August 24, 2016 13:00 | August 24, 2016 16:15 | 3h 15m | 1,315 | 1,611 |
| 5 | February 18, 2016 13:30 | February 18, 2016 17:00 | 3h 30m | 1,024 | 1,766 |
| 6 | July 12, 2016 00:00 | July 12, 2016 17:45 | 17h 45m | 826 | 3,244 |
| 7 | September 2, 2016 17:45 | September 2, 2016 21:30 | 3h 45m | 811 | 473 |
| 8 | February 3, 2016 03:00 | February 3, 2016 04:45 | 1h 45m | 807 | 232 |
| 9 | November 14, 2016 06:45 | November 14, 2016 07:00 | 15m | 805 | 201 |
| 10 | September 2, 2016 04:00 | September 2, 2016 08:30 | 4h 30m | 803 | 3,614 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Pickens 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2016 | 6.2 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2016 | 78 min | 0.95 | 78 min | 0.95 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 74,039 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county