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2017 Abbeville County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Abbeville County, SC went without power for an average of 19.9 hours, a total of 196K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 277th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Abbeville County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 11, 2017 14:30 | September 15, 2017 05:30 | 3d 15h | 6,694 | 156K |
| 2 | August 20, 2017 23:45 | August 21, 2017 10:00 | 10h 15m | 1,088 | 5,154 |
| 3 | September 22, 2017 22:45 | September 23, 2017 01:00 | 2h 15m | 1,087 | 2,446 |
| 4 | April 6, 2017 04:30 | April 6, 2017 21:00 | 16h 30m | 714 | 6,262 |
| 5 | December 14, 2017 03:45 | December 14, 2017 07:15 | 3h 30m | 658 | 1,633 |
| 6 | September 1, 2017 18:30 | September 1, 2017 21:00 | 2h 30m | 492 | 592 |
| 7 | April 4, 2017 13:15 | April 5, 2017 00:45 | 11h 30m | 486 | 259 |
| 8 | June 20, 2017 01:45 | June 20, 2017 06:45 | 5h | 384 | 1,383 |
| 9 | April 24, 2017 16:30 | April 25, 2017 03:30 | 11h | 383 | 1,528 |
| 10 | December 5, 2017 02:30 | December 5, 2017 03:00 | 30m | 366 | 183 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 42 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 Abbeville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2017 | 5.5 hrs | 1.85 | 82 min | 1.14 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 2.20 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Abbeville - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Due West - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,846 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. Abbeville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Abbeville County, SC annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/south-carolina/abbeville-county