County annual report · FIPS 45061
2018 Lee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lee County, SC went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1858th 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 Lee 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 | August 6, 2018 19:15 | August 6, 2018 20:15 | 1h | 403 | 403 |
| 2 | August 7, 2018 16:45 | August 7, 2018 17:45 | 1h | 403 | 403 |
| 3 | April 15, 2018 19:45 | April 16, 2018 01:45 | 6h | 375 | 872 |
| 4 | June 25, 2018 00:30 | June 25, 2018 04:45 | 4h 15m | 283 | 339 |
| 5 | April 16, 2018 02:30 | April 16, 2018 12:15 | 9h 45m | 254 | 2,477 |
| 6 | January 23, 2018 19:45 | January 23, 2018 20:45 | 1h | 249 | 170 |
| 7 | September 12, 2018 18:45 | September 12, 2018 20:15 | 1h 30m | 219 | 156 |
| 8 | March 1, 2018 21:30 | March 2, 2018 02:45 | 5h 15m | 178 | 783 |
| 9 | December 26, 2018 19:00 | December 26, 2018 19:45 | 45m | 175 | 88 |
| 10 | January 4, 2018 15:30 | January 4, 2018 17:45 | 2h 15m | 154 | 193 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 15 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Lee 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Camden | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,675 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county