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2018 Oconee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Oconee County, SC went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 243K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 912th 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 Oconee 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 | December 8, 2018 19:30 | December 12, 2018 01:00 | 3d 5h | 3,077 | 57K |
| 2 | July 23, 2018 12:00 | July 24, 2018 03:30 | 15h 30m | 2,626 | 788 |
| 3 | July 4, 2018 02:00 | July 4, 2018 23:00 | 21h | 2,295 | 7,628 |
| 4 | January 4, 2018 16:15 | January 4, 2018 22:00 | 5h 45m | 1,969 | 2,960 |
| 5 | June 10, 2018 14:00 | June 10, 2018 15:30 | 1h 30m | 1,948 | 2,920 |
| 6 | July 12, 2018 12:30 | July 12, 2018 19:45 | 7h 15m | 1,820 | 1,401 |
| 7 | November 29, 2018 13:15 | November 29, 2018 22:30 | 9h 15m | 1,805 | 857 |
| 8 | August 7, 2018 21:15 | August 9, 2018 09:15 | 1d 12h | 1,582 | 13K |
| 9 | June 24, 2018 20:45 | June 27, 2018 09:45 | 2d 13h | 1,500 | 34K |
| 10 | September 4, 2018 21:45 | September 5, 2018 21:00 | 23h 15m | 1,389 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 73 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Oconee 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 33.4 hrs | 5.14 | 8.2 hrs | 3.40 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2018 | 8.8 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| City of Seneca - (SC) | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 0.65 | - | - |
| City of Westminster - (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 ÷ 40,425 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. Oconee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oconee 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/oconee-county