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2019 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.8 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1194th 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 Saluda 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 07:45 | June 23, 2019 05:15 | 21h 30m | 4,830 | 20K |
| 2 | March 26, 2019 01:15 | March 26, 2019 03:30 | 2h 15m | 4,139 | 3,658 |
| 3 | June 18, 2019 13:30 | June 18, 2019 15:45 | 2h 15m | 2,326 | 916 |
| 4 | June 20, 2019 20:00 | June 21, 2019 15:00 | 19h | 1,488 | 3,697 |
| 5 | September 13, 2019 17:15 | September 14, 2019 02:15 | 9h | 1,297 | 1,152 |
| 6 | July 23, 2019 18:00 | July 23, 2019 21:45 | 3h 45m | 952 | 864 |
| 7 | May 4, 2019 22:15 | May 5, 2019 03:15 | 5h | 902 | 935 |
| 8 | April 19, 2019 17:45 | April 20, 2019 00:30 | 6h 45m | 706 | 1,149 |
| 9 | May 18, 2019 23:00 | May 19, 2019 10:15 | 11h 15m | 607 | 1,154 |
| 10 | February 12, 2019 21:45 | February 13, 2019 04:45 | 7h | 482 | 1,052 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 33 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 Saluda 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 | - |
| 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 ÷ 11,824 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. Saluda County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saluda 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/saluda-county