County annual report · FIPS 45059
2019 Laurens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Laurens County, SC went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.8 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2073rd 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 Laurens 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 22, 2019 07:15 | June 24, 2019 08:45 | 2d 1h | 4,681 | 33K |
| 2 | December 18, 2019 20:15 | December 18, 2019 22:00 | 1h 45m | 2,606 | 3,937 |
| 3 | April 8, 2019 18:00 | April 9, 2019 10:30 | 16h 30m | 1,811 | 6,671 |
| 4 | May 24, 2019 18:00 | May 24, 2019 20:00 | 2h | 1,809 | 2,298 |
| 5 | June 24, 2019 22:15 | June 25, 2019 07:45 | 9h 30m | 1,691 | 3,839 |
| 6 | October 8, 2019 22:00 | October 9, 2019 19:15 | 21h 15m | 1,314 | 28K |
| 7 | April 14, 2019 19:15 | April 15, 2019 07:45 | 12h 30m | 1,203 | 3,379 |
| 8 | September 22, 2019 05:30 | September 22, 2019 10:45 | 5h 15m | 952 | 4,998 |
| 9 | January 4, 2019 19:30 | January 4, 2019 22:00 | 2h 30m | 949 | 1,663 |
| 10 | January 5, 2019 01:00 | January 5, 2019 03:45 | 2h 45m | 935 | 1,083 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 47 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 Laurens 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.74 | 87 min | 1.31 |
| Clinton Combined Utility Sys | 2013 | 50 min | 0.87 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (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 ÷ 71,549 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens 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/laurens-county