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2019 Abbeville County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Abbeville County, SC went without power for an average of 13.7 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.8 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 379th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Abbeville County, 2019
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 20, 2019 19:30 | June 24, 2019 21:15 | 4d 1h | 4,808 | 92K |
| 2 | December 18, 2019 19:45 | December 19, 2019 00:00 | 4h 15m | 3,309 | 5,575 |
| 3 | June 25, 2019 00:45 | June 25, 2019 15:15 | 14h 30m | 1,350 | 896 |
| 4 | March 1, 2019 23:30 | March 2, 2019 14:15 | 14h 45m | 644 | 9,416 |
| 5 | December 20, 2019 19:45 | December 20, 2019 21:45 | 2h | 587 | 604 |
| 6 | June 8, 2019 18:15 | June 9, 2019 02:45 | 8h 30m | 558 | 746 |
| 7 | April 20, 2019 04:15 | April 20, 2019 05:00 | 45m | 557 | 418 |
| 8 | June 26, 2019 13:15 | June 26, 2019 16:15 | 3h | 498 | 376 |
| 9 | April 21, 2019 04:15 | April 21, 2019 07:15 | 3h | 497 | 1,490 |
| 10 | July 3, 2019 23:15 | July 4, 2019 05:15 | 6h | 462 | 1,901 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 38 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Abbeville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.74 | 87 min | 1.31 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Abbeville - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Due West - (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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,846 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. Abbeville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Abbeville County, SC annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/south-carolina/abbeville-county