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2019 McCormick County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in McCormick County, SC went without power for an average of 17.9 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 260th 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 McCormick 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 25, 2019 02:00 | June 25, 2019 07:00 | 5h | 2,733 | 3,128 |
| 2 | September 18, 2019 13:00 | September 18, 2019 19:15 | 6h 15m | 2,042 | 13K |
| 3 | June 20, 2019 19:30 | June 24, 2019 16:00 | 3d 20h | 1,649 | 30K |
| 4 | April 10, 2019 17:45 | April 10, 2019 19:30 | 1h 45m | 1,114 | 1,320 |
| 5 | April 19, 2019 16:30 | April 19, 2019 23:00 | 6h 30m | 1,049 | 3,734 |
| 6 | April 25, 2019 18:15 | April 25, 2019 19:00 | 45m | 935 | 701 |
| 7 | August 18, 2019 12:30 | August 18, 2019 14:00 | 1h 30m | 935 | 937 |
| 8 | September 6, 2019 14:30 | September 6, 2019 16:30 | 2h | 935 | 937 |
| 9 | July 5, 2019 01:15 | July 5, 2019 16:00 | 14h 45m | 685 | 3,312 |
| 10 | November 13, 2019 15:00 | November 13, 2019 16:45 | 1h 45m | 562 | 562 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 McCormick 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 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | - | 90 min | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of McCormick - (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 ÷ 4,091 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. McCormick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McCormick 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/mccormick-county