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2018 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1184th 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 Saluda 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 | November 24, 2018 06:15 | November 24, 2018 07:30 | 1h 15m | 4,135 | 3,818 |
| 2 | July 3, 2018 20:15 | July 4, 2018 02:00 | 5h 45m | 4,114 | 5,544 |
| 3 | December 19, 2018 19:00 | December 19, 2018 19:15 | 15m | 1,568 | 392 |
| 4 | June 23, 2018 01:30 | June 23, 2018 08:45 | 7h 15m | 1,441 | 2,845 |
| 5 | May 12, 2018 03:15 | May 12, 2018 05:00 | 1h 45m | 1,345 | 2,017 |
| 6 | November 15, 2018 05:15 | November 15, 2018 15:00 | 9h 45m | 1,303 | 1,483 |
| 7 | June 25, 2018 23:45 | June 26, 2018 17:15 | 17h 30m | 1,021 | 2,641 |
| 8 | April 15, 2018 17:45 | April 17, 2018 00:00 | 1d 6h | 993 | 2,816 |
| 9 | September 2, 2018 07:00 | September 2, 2018 10:00 | 3h | 675 | 1,016 |
| 10 | April 28, 2018 22:00 | April 29, 2018 05:45 | 7h 45m | 665 | 2,509 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 50 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Saluda 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 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.80 | 1.6 hrs | 1.37 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | - | 90 min | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 4.1 hrs | 2.56 | 2.2 hrs | 2.03 |
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 ÷ 11,824 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. Saluda County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saluda 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/saluda-county