County annual report · FIPS 45043
2017 Georgetown County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Georgetown County, SC went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1646th 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 Georgetown 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 10:30 | September 12, 2017 22:30 | 1d 12h | 2,837 | 41K |
| 2 | September 20, 2017 20:30 | September 21, 2017 01:45 | 5h 15m | 2,747 | 2,665 |
| 3 | July 19, 2017 20:45 | July 20, 2017 15:45 | 19h | 2,662 | 19K |
| 4 | July 25, 2017 16:45 | July 25, 2017 21:30 | 4h 45m | 1,966 | 748 |
| 5 | August 9, 2017 17:15 | August 9, 2017 19:00 | 1h 45m | 1,896 | 797 |
| 6 | September 19, 2017 22:30 | September 19, 2017 23:15 | 45m | 1,810 | 466 |
| 7 | August 7, 2017 17:15 | August 8, 2017 00:30 | 7h 15m | 1,387 | 1,859 |
| 8 | September 3, 2017 08:00 | September 3, 2017 11:45 | 3h 45m | 921 | 1,721 |
| 9 | October 7, 2017 01:00 | October 7, 2017 01:15 | 15m | 858 | 215 |
| 10 | October 23, 2017 23:45 | October 24, 2017 11:00 | 11h 15m | 748 | 670 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 45 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Georgetown 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 | - |
| South Carolina Public Service Authority | 2017 | 32 min | 0.51 | 19 min | 0.32 |
| City of Georgetown - (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 ÷ 46,010 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. Georgetown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Georgetown 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/georgetown-county