County annual report · FIPS 45081
2016 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1270th 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 Saluda 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 4, 2016 10:00 | August 4, 2016 14:15 | 4h 15m | 4,067 | 4,527 |
| 2 | November 29, 2016 09:15 | November 29, 2016 15:30 | 6h 15m | 2,612 | 8,656 |
| 3 | September 28, 2016 00:00 | September 28, 2016 18:15 | 18h 15m | 2,232 | 970 |
| 4 | November 9, 2016 19:15 | November 9, 2016 20:15 | 1h | 2,075 | 520 |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 16:30 | February 25, 2016 00:45 | 8h 15m | 1,903 | 2,203 |
| 6 | April 1, 2016 08:00 | April 1, 2016 13:00 | 5h | 754 | 630 |
| 7 | November 16, 2016 15:45 | November 16, 2016 18:45 | 3h | 742 | 2,226 |
| 8 | November 16, 2016 19:45 | November 16, 2016 21:00 | 1h 15m | 742 | 928 |
| 9 | October 19, 2016 13:45 | October 19, 2016 14:00 | 15m | 463 | 116 |
| 10 | October 8, 2016 17:15 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 30m | 454 | 154 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 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 Saluda 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 |
| 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 | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,824 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. Saluda County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saluda 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/saluda-county