County annual report · FIPS 45081
2017 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 456th 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 Saluda 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 11:15 | September 14, 2017 02:15 | 2d 15h | 6,211 | 96K |
| 2 | March 22, 2017 01:30 | March 22, 2017 17:15 | 15h 45m | 5,480 | 17K |
| 3 | June 27, 2017 16:45 | June 27, 2017 18:15 | 1h 30m | 4,087 | 3,013 |
| 4 | July 26, 2017 14:30 | July 26, 2017 15:00 | 30m | 2,079 | 523 |
| 5 | May 21, 2017 21:00 | May 22, 2017 01:30 | 4h 30m | 1,261 | 453 |
| 6 | April 5, 2017 17:30 | April 10, 2017 20:15 | 5d 2h | 1,084 | 10K |
| 7 | February 18, 2017 08:00 | February 18, 2017 10:00 | 2h | 1,016 | 785 |
| 8 | March 15, 2017 20:45 | March 15, 2017 23:15 | 2h 30m | 744 | 290 |
| 9 | January 2, 2017 09:45 | January 2, 2017 17:15 | 7h 30m | 566 | 874 |
| 10 | February 21, 2017 00:30 | February 21, 2017 02:30 | 2h | 520 | 671 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 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 Saluda 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 | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 5.4 hrs | 2.12 | 70 min | 1.21 |
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 ÷ 11,824 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. Saluda County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saluda 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/saluda-county