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2018 Laurens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Laurens County, SC went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1899th 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 Laurens 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 | June 1, 2018 18:45 | June 3, 2018 07:45 | 1d 13h | 4,541 | 31K |
| 2 | June 25, 2018 22:45 | June 27, 2018 07:00 | 1d 8h | 2,807 | 12K |
| 3 | September 9, 2018 12:00 | September 9, 2018 13:30 | 1h 30m | 2,673 | 3,326 |
| 4 | December 12, 2018 11:15 | December 12, 2018 13:45 | 2h 30m | 2,577 | 2,012 |
| 5 | October 16, 2018 03:00 | October 16, 2018 07:15 | 4h 15m | 2,058 | 8,235 |
| 6 | June 1, 2018 13:30 | June 1, 2018 17:15 | 3h 45m | 2,056 | 4,647 |
| 7 | August 8, 2018 19:15 | August 11, 2018 10:15 | 2d 15h | 1,850 | 8,595 |
| 8 | January 4, 2018 15:15 | January 4, 2018 18:30 | 3h 15m | 1,766 | 830 |
| 9 | October 11, 2018 06:00 | October 11, 2018 23:15 | 17h 15m | 1,566 | 4,430 |
| 10 | May 31, 2018 18:15 | May 31, 2018 22:30 | 4h 15m | 1,488 | 2,901 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 70 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Laurens 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 |
| Clinton Combined Utility Sys | 2013 | 50 min | 0.87 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (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 ÷ 71,549 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens 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/laurens-county