County annual report · FIPS 45077
2017 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 699K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 567th 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 Pickens 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 16:15 | September 16, 2017 03:30 | 4d 11h | 15,242 | 579K |
| 2 | April 7, 2017 23:30 | April 8, 2017 04:45 | 5h 15m | 4,055 | 9,120 |
| 3 | November 5, 2017 05:30 | November 5, 2017 10:00 | 4h 30m | 2,394 | 11K |
| 4 | October 8, 2017 10:30 | October 9, 2017 21:00 | 1d 10h | 1,455 | 14K |
| 5 | December 8, 2017 18:00 | December 9, 2017 22:00 | 1d 4h | 1,447 | 9,254 |
| 6 | November 19, 2017 23:15 | November 20, 2017 00:15 | 1h | 1,287 | 1,287 |
| 7 | November 20, 2017 19:45 | November 20, 2017 20:15 | 30m | 1,287 | 322 |
| 8 | March 2, 2017 03:15 | March 3, 2017 17:00 | 1d 13h | 1,067 | 14K |
| 9 | June 24, 2017 11:00 | June 25, 2017 03:45 | 16h 45m | 949 | 8,727 |
| 10 | October 23, 2017 08:15 | October 24, 2017 07:00 | 22h 45m | 870 | 2,799 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 42 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Pickens 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2017 | 16.6 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.42 | 1.8 hrs | 1.42 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 74,039 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county