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2017 McCormick County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in McCormick County, SC went without power for an average of 40.3 hours, a total of 165K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 113th 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 McCormick 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 13:15 | September 15, 2017 05:30 | 3d 16h | 5,063 | 129K |
| 2 | April 5, 2017 16:15 | April 6, 2017 01:45 | 9h 30m | 3,669 | 1,984 |
| 3 | July 15, 2017 22:30 | July 16, 2017 01:45 | 3h 15m | 2,218 | 2,634 |
| 4 | September 1, 2017 19:00 | September 2, 2017 03:30 | 8h 30m | 1,651 | 7,030 |
| 5 | April 3, 2017 19:45 | April 4, 2017 05:30 | 9h 45m | 924 | 2,835 |
| 6 | March 6, 2017 05:30 | March 6, 2017 08:45 | 3h 15m | 917 | 2,980 |
| 7 | November 1, 2017 12:00 | November 1, 2017 17:45 | 5h 45m | 581 | 1,257 |
| 8 | November 7, 2017 22:45 | November 8, 2017 02:30 | 3h 45m | 550 | 1,884 |
| 9 | April 6, 2017 14:30 | April 6, 2017 20:30 | 6h | 502 | 1,402 |
| 10 | July 21, 2017 20:30 | July 21, 2017 22:30 | 2h | 502 | 906 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 26 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 McCormick 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 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 5.6 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of McCormick - (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 ÷ 4,091 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. McCormick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCormick 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/mccormick-county