County annual report · FIPS 45077
2019 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.8 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2151st 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 Pickens 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 26, 2019 16:45 | April 27, 2019 01:30 | 8h 45m | 2,851 | 1,301 |
| 2 | June 10, 2019 05:45 | June 10, 2019 08:15 | 2h 30m | 2,733 | 4,099 |
| 3 | January 15, 2019 13:45 | January 15, 2019 20:00 | 6h 15m | 2,715 | 3,599 |
| 4 | June 10, 2019 10:00 | June 11, 2019 02:45 | 16h 45m | 2,130 | 10K |
| 5 | June 7, 2019 17:00 | June 8, 2019 17:15 | 1d | 1,809 | 9,418 |
| 6 | June 6, 2019 02:15 | June 6, 2019 02:30 | 15m | 1,410 | 353 |
| 7 | April 14, 2019 09:30 | April 15, 2019 09:00 | 23h 30m | 1,304 | 5,858 |
| 8 | July 6, 2019 20:00 | July 6, 2019 20:45 | 45m | 1,100 | 825 |
| 9 | January 5, 2019 00:45 | January 5, 2019 07:00 | 6h 15m | 1,023 | 2,079 |
| 10 | June 7, 2019 13:00 | June 7, 2019 16:00 | 3h | 1,008 | 760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 62 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Pickens 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2018 | 8.8 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.61 | 2.1 hrs | 1.61 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 74,039 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. Pickens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pickens 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/pickens-county