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2016 Spartanburg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Spartanburg County, SC went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 570K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 811th 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 Spartanburg 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 | February 24, 2016 13:30 | February 27, 2016 02:00 | 2d 12h | 8,756 | 117K |
| 2 | October 10, 2016 11:15 | October 11, 2016 23:00 | 1d 11h | 6,730 | 23K |
| 3 | July 4, 2016 02:45 | July 4, 2016 05:45 | 3h | 6,499 | 7,011 |
| 4 | July 8, 2016 19:30 | July 10, 2016 20:45 | 2d 1h | 5,553 | 72K |
| 5 | May 14, 2016 12:00 | May 15, 2016 06:45 | 18h 45m | 4,106 | 3,961 |
| 6 | March 1, 2016 13:00 | March 1, 2016 19:30 | 6h 30m | 4,023 | 1,191 |
| 7 | April 7, 2016 06:15 | April 8, 2016 07:15 | 1d 1h | 3,450 | 10K |
| 8 | July 22, 2016 20:45 | July 23, 2016 23:00 | 1d 2h | 3,405 | 12K |
| 9 | July 21, 2016 11:15 | July 22, 2016 19:45 | 1d 8h | 2,789 | 3,367 |
| 10 | July 16, 2016 08:45 | July 16, 2016 12:00 | 3h 15m | 2,745 | 701 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 147 reached 100+ customers, 46 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 Spartanburg 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.26 | 89 min | 1.12 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2016 | 6.2 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lockhart Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greer Commission of Public Wks | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 147,558 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. Spartanburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spartanburg 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/spartanburg-county