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2018 Beaufort County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Beaufort County, SC went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 298K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1707th 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 Beaufort 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 | October 11, 2018 03:15 | October 12, 2018 23:45 | 1d 20h | 16,371 | 94K |
| 2 | April 23, 2018 14:15 | April 24, 2018 02:15 | 12h | 10,174 | 6,292 |
| 3 | August 2, 2018 22:45 | August 3, 2018 05:15 | 6h 30m | 8,897 | 3,768 |
| 4 | January 3, 2018 15:00 | January 5, 2018 01:45 | 1d 10h | 3,909 | 20K |
| 5 | June 2, 2018 21:15 | June 3, 2018 09:00 | 11h 45m | 2,775 | 5,727 |
| 6 | June 25, 2018 16:30 | June 26, 2018 00:45 | 8h 15m | 2,713 | 3,321 |
| 7 | July 5, 2018 05:30 | July 5, 2018 07:15 | 1h 45m | 2,531 | 3,484 |
| 8 | July 9, 2018 19:45 | July 10, 2018 19:15 | 23h 30m | 2,521 | 805 |
| 9 | September 2, 2018 09:00 | September 2, 2018 14:45 | 5h 45m | 2,353 | 3,558 |
| 10 | December 19, 2018 14:00 | December 19, 2018 18:45 | 4h 45m | 2,331 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 137 reached 100+ customers, 38 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Beaufort 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.80 | 1.6 hrs | 1.37 |
| Palmetto Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 55 min | 0.74 | 34 min | 0.56 |
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 ÷ 127,289 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort 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/beaufort-county