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2020 Beaufort County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Beaufort County, SC went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2512th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2020
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 6, 2020 16:30 | April 14, 2020 05:00 | 7d 12h | 9,896 | 33K |
| 2 | October 21, 2020 13:15 | October 21, 2020 23:15 | 10h | 4,666 | 7,630 |
| 3 | September 26, 2020 11:45 | September 26, 2020 16:45 | 5h | 3,758 | 4,777 |
| 4 | November 11, 2020 15:15 | November 11, 2020 18:15 | 3h | 2,763 | 2,774 |
| 5 | April 19, 2020 16:30 | April 20, 2020 03:00 | 10h 30m | 2,719 | 6,143 |
| 6 | August 6, 2020 20:15 | August 6, 2020 21:00 | 45m | 2,566 | 1,283 |
| 7 | January 21, 2020 04:00 | January 21, 2020 10:00 | 6h | 2,472 | 3,225 |
| 8 | April 15, 2020 14:45 | April 15, 2020 18:45 | 4h | 2,384 | 1,621 |
| 9 | October 30, 2020 05:45 | October 30, 2020 19:15 | 13h 30m | 1,986 | 4,694 |
| 10 | September 29, 2020 21:30 | September 30, 2020 08:15 | 10h 45m | 1,959 | 5,829 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 103 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2020 | 2.4 hrs | 1.40 | 88 min | 1.17 |
| Palmetto Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 88 min | 0.66 | 38 min | 0.54 |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 127,289 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, SC annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/south-carolina/beaufort-county