County annual report · FIPS 45041
2017 Florence County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Florence County, SC went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 148K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1413th 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 Florence 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 | May 24, 2017 10:30 | May 25, 2017 06:15 | 19h 45m | 3,406 | 11K |
| 2 | July 10, 2017 21:15 | July 11, 2017 06:30 | 9h 15m | 3,003 | 4,721 |
| 3 | September 11, 2017 12:00 | September 13, 2017 00:30 | 1d 12h | 2,932 | 35K |
| 4 | October 28, 2017 02:30 | October 28, 2017 03:45 | 1h 15m | 2,754 | 3,442 |
| 5 | December 16, 2017 16:00 | December 16, 2017 22:15 | 6h 15m | 2,529 | 3,948 |
| 6 | October 23, 2017 21:30 | October 24, 2017 18:45 | 21h 15m | 2,323 | 7,555 |
| 7 | May 25, 2017 09:30 | May 25, 2017 16:45 | 7h 15m | 2,112 | 1,340 |
| 8 | April 6, 2017 13:15 | April 7, 2017 01:15 | 12h | 1,734 | 3,015 |
| 9 | June 9, 2017 12:30 | June 9, 2017 22:15 | 9h 45m | 1,637 | 1,223 |
| 10 | January 21, 2017 22:45 | January 22, 2017 11:30 | 12h 45m | 1,369 | 1,144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 102 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Florence 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 Progress - (NC) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Santee Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 4.9 hrs | - | 3.5 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 54,564 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. Florence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Florence 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/florence-county