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2019 Aiken County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Aiken County, SC went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 292K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.8 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1413th 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 Aiken 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 | April 25, 2019 06:30 | April 25, 2019 11:30 | 5h | 16,271 | 28K |
| 2 | June 19, 2019 01:30 | June 23, 2019 06:00 | 4d 4h | 11,688 | 127K |
| 3 | February 12, 2019 21:00 | February 13, 2019 21:15 | 1d | 2,334 | 6,058 |
| 4 | June 27, 2019 12:30 | June 27, 2019 20:30 | 8h | 1,905 | 520 |
| 5 | July 3, 2019 21:45 | July 4, 2019 02:00 | 4h 15m | 1,905 | 507 |
| 6 | September 13, 2019 22:00 | September 14, 2019 06:15 | 8h 15m | 1,866 | 3,348 |
| 7 | September 20, 2019 06:15 | September 20, 2019 13:45 | 7h 30m | 1,854 | 5,100 |
| 8 | May 25, 2019 08:00 | May 26, 2019 08:30 | 1d | 1,613 | 8,479 |
| 9 | August 2, 2019 01:45 | August 2, 2019 03:15 | 1h 30m | 1,429 | 369 |
| 10 | December 17, 2019 07:00 | December 17, 2019 07:30 | 30m | 1,422 | 711 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 109 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Aiken 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 79,309 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. Aiken County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aiken 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/aiken-county