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2017 Laurens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Laurens County, SC went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 209K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1356th 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 Laurens 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 11:00 | September 15, 2017 03:45 | 3d 16h | 6,314 | 132K |
| 2 | March 2, 2017 00:00 | March 3, 2017 00:00 | 1d | 2,924 | 15K |
| 3 | May 1, 2017 17:00 | May 2, 2017 00:15 | 7h 15m | 2,284 | 6,189 |
| 4 | July 28, 2017 18:45 | July 28, 2017 23:45 | 5h | 2,279 | 3,229 |
| 5 | April 6, 2017 05:00 | April 7, 2017 04:45 | 23h 45m | 1,877 | 2,273 |
| 6 | July 16, 2017 16:30 | July 16, 2017 17:30 | 1h | 1,776 | 1,776 |
| 7 | October 12, 2017 07:15 | October 12, 2017 12:45 | 5h 30m | 1,768 | 447 |
| 8 | October 8, 2017 08:45 | October 9, 2017 19:30 | 1d 10h | 1,524 | 7,886 |
| 9 | March 3, 2017 14:00 | March 3, 2017 19:45 | 5h 45m | 1,374 | 924 |
| 10 | January 5, 2017 18:30 | January 6, 2017 07:45 | 13h 15m | 1,369 | 1,795 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 49 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Laurens 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 2.20 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 |
| Clinton Combined Utility Sys | 2013 | 50 min | 0.87 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (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 ÷ 71,549 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens 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/laurens-county