County annual report · FIPS 45061
2019 Lee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lee County, SC went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.8 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1162nd 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 Lee 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 20:30 | June 21, 2019 16:15 | 19h 45m | 2,233 | 15K |
| 2 | February 5, 2019 18:30 | February 6, 2019 00:15 | 5h 45m | 680 | 269 |
| 3 | February 14, 2019 15:00 | February 14, 2019 15:30 | 30m | 402 | 201 |
| 4 | December 13, 2019 17:45 | December 13, 2019 22:45 | 5h | 298 | 203 |
| 5 | June 23, 2019 08:15 | June 23, 2019 18:00 | 9h 45m | 288 | 1,086 |
| 6 | August 14, 2019 12:30 | August 14, 2019 14:15 | 1h 45m | 264 | 264 |
| 7 | February 12, 2019 23:45 | February 13, 2019 12:30 | 12h 45m | 236 | 3,009 |
| 8 | September 5, 2019 17:30 | September 5, 2019 19:00 | 1h 30m | 234 | 145 |
| 9 | July 18, 2019 19:00 | July 19, 2019 02:15 | 7h 15m | 228 | 519 |
| 10 | December 8, 2019 20:15 | December 8, 2019 23:00 | 2h 45m | 197 | 446 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 15 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lee 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 Progress - (NC) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Camden | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,675 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county