County annual report · FIPS 45077
2018 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 526K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 762nd 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 Pickens 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 | May 19, 2018 02:00 | May 19, 2018 15:15 | 13h 15m | 10,086 | 8,321 |
| 2 | June 24, 2018 20:45 | June 27, 2018 07:45 | 2d 11h | 8,484 | 143K |
| 3 | December 8, 2018 23:15 | December 13, 2018 01:45 | 4d 2h | 6,655 | 163K |
| 4 | May 19, 2018 20:15 | May 20, 2018 05:15 | 9h | 3,760 | 10K |
| 5 | March 23, 2018 22:15 | March 24, 2018 02:30 | 4h 15m | 3,700 | 15K |
| 6 | June 11, 2018 20:30 | June 13, 2018 01:45 | 1d 5h | 3,148 | 12K |
| 7 | June 16, 2018 19:30 | June 17, 2018 09:15 | 13h 45m | 3,099 | 4,866 |
| 8 | June 27, 2018 20:00 | June 29, 2018 01:45 | 1d 5h | 2,671 | 16K |
| 9 | October 10, 2018 14:15 | October 13, 2018 00:45 | 2d 10h | 2,247 | 16K |
| 10 | January 6, 2018 10:15 | January 6, 2018 13:00 | 2h 45m | 1,769 | 4,421 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 102 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Pickens 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2018 | 8.8 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.61 | 2.1 hrs | 1.61 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 74,039 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county