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2018 Abbeville County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Abbeville County, SC went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 577th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Abbeville County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 22, 2018 02:30 | July 23, 2018 02:30 | 1d | 2,765 | 19K |
| 2 | September 27, 2018 23:00 | September 28, 2018 19:00 | 20h | 2,016 | 8,333 |
| 3 | August 14, 2018 18:30 | August 14, 2018 19:15 | 45m | 2,000 | 779 |
| 4 | May 15, 2018 10:30 | May 15, 2018 19:30 | 9h | 1,920 | 966 |
| 5 | June 25, 2018 20:00 | June 26, 2018 20:30 | 1d | 1,326 | 9,734 |
| 6 | December 28, 2018 18:15 | December 28, 2018 19:00 | 45m | 1,087 | 272 |
| 7 | April 15, 2018 21:15 | April 16, 2018 16:30 | 19h 15m | 1,072 | 3,765 |
| 8 | August 15, 2018 05:30 | August 15, 2018 14:00 | 8h 30m | 1,005 | 8,447 |
| 9 | December 9, 2018 07:00 | December 9, 2018 21:30 | 14h 30m | 954 | 5,050 |
| 10 | March 1, 2018 19:00 | March 2, 2018 00:15 | 5h 15m | 674 | 382 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 48 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Abbeville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.80 | 1.6 hrs | 1.37 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.74 | 87 min | 1.31 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Abbeville - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Due West - (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 99% of South Carolina's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,846 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. Abbeville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Abbeville County, SC annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/south-carolina/abbeville-county