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2017 Orangeburg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Orangeburg County, SC went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1950th 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 Orangeburg 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 | February 9, 2017 14:00 | February 9, 2017 18:15 | 4h 15m | 5,775 | 2,495 |
| 2 | September 11, 2017 13:00 | September 13, 2017 04:30 | 1d 15h | 3,466 | 32K |
| 3 | October 18, 2017 02:00 | October 18, 2017 02:15 | 15m | 1,363 | 341 |
| 4 | November 2, 2017 14:15 | November 2, 2017 20:00 | 5h 45m | 1,319 | 1,162 |
| 5 | June 25, 2017 20:15 | June 25, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 858 | 215 |
| 6 | May 5, 2017 01:15 | May 5, 2017 11:00 | 9h 45m | 792 | 2,653 |
| 7 | May 24, 2017 13:30 | May 25, 2017 02:00 | 12h 30m | 721 | 2,252 |
| 8 | September 25, 2017 17:45 | September 25, 2017 18:30 | 45m | 683 | 171 |
| 9 | August 10, 2017 22:00 | August 10, 2017 23:15 | 1h 15m | 633 | 472 |
| 10 | October 23, 2017 21:30 | October 24, 2017 03:30 | 6h | 600 | 921 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 50 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 Orangeburg 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | - | 50 min | - |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) | 2017 | 5.6 hrs | 3.43 | 2.9 hrs | 2.34 |
| City of Orangeburg - (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 ÷ 58,624 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. Orangeburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orangeburg 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/orangeburg-county