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2018 Anderson County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Anderson County, SC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 622K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 897th 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 Anderson 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 21, 2018 11:00 | July 24, 2018 00:15 | 2d 13h | 10,733 | 111K |
| 2 | May 31, 2018 09:00 | June 4, 2018 07:15 | 3d 22h | 8,042 | 109K |
| 3 | September 27, 2018 19:45 | October 3, 2018 01:00 | 5d 5h | 5,159 | 34K |
| 4 | December 18, 2018 14:15 | December 18, 2018 22:15 | 8h | 4,260 | 4,892 |
| 5 | July 21, 2018 01:45 | July 21, 2018 03:45 | 2h | 4,208 | 5,261 |
| 6 | July 17, 2018 12:00 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 1d 11h | 3,973 | 5,948 |
| 7 | June 24, 2018 09:30 | June 28, 2018 06:15 | 3d 20h | 3,175 | 44K |
| 8 | December 23, 2018 13:00 | December 24, 2018 02:45 | 13h 45m | 2,203 | 20K |
| 9 | September 15, 2018 13:30 | September 18, 2018 07:15 | 2d 17h | 2,198 | 34K |
| 10 | January 20, 2018 13:15 | January 21, 2018 12:15 | 23h | 2,187 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 112 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Anderson 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.74 | 87 min | 1.31 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2018 | 8.8 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 101,520 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. Anderson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Anderson 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/anderson-county