County annual report · FIPS 45043
2018 Georgetown County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Georgetown County, SC went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1560th 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 Georgetown 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 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 16, 2018 18:45 | 1d 14h | 4,736 | 46K |
| 2 | October 11, 2018 09:00 | October 12, 2018 19:00 | 1d 10h | 3,475 | 5,769 |
| 3 | August 2, 2018 13:00 | August 2, 2018 22:00 | 9h | 3,286 | 1,997 |
| 4 | September 14, 2018 10:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 11h 30m | 2,329 | 8,590 |
| 5 | June 25, 2018 20:30 | June 26, 2018 07:00 | 10h 30m | 2,037 | 3,876 |
| 6 | March 11, 2018 15:00 | March 11, 2018 18:15 | 3h 15m | 1,975 | 2,902 |
| 7 | April 15, 2018 18:30 | April 16, 2018 06:30 | 12h | 1,641 | 4,399 |
| 8 | September 18, 2018 19:45 | September 18, 2018 20:45 | 1h | 1,616 | 787 |
| 9 | June 14, 2018 21:15 | June 15, 2018 05:15 | 8h | 1,445 | 1,929 |
| 10 | January 5, 2018 11:15 | January 5, 2018 16:00 | 4h 45m | 1,234 | 1,896 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 78 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Georgetown 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 Progress - (NC) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Santee Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.9 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| South Carolina Public Service Authority | 2018 | 8.6 hrs | 1.10 | 21 min | 0.31 |
| City of Georgetown - (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 ÷ 46,010 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. Georgetown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Georgetown 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/georgetown-county