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2020 Georgetown County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Georgetown County, SC went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2124th 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 Georgetown 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 13, 2020 12:45 | April 15, 2020 02:45 | 1d 14h | 4,363 | 48K |
| 2 | August 3, 2020 22:15 | August 4, 2020 23:00 | 1d | 2,957 | 19K |
| 3 | October 22, 2020 18:00 | October 22, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 1,682 | 421 |
| 4 | May 22, 2020 16:15 | May 22, 2020 17:00 | 45m | 1,453 | 729 |
| 5 | December 24, 2020 22:30 | December 25, 2020 13:00 | 14h 30m | 1,364 | 3,679 |
| 6 | February 7, 2020 10:45 | February 7, 2020 20:30 | 9h 45m | 1,362 | 3,120 |
| 7 | September 29, 2020 15:45 | September 29, 2020 20:15 | 4h 30m | 1,296 | 998 |
| 8 | October 19, 2020 22:15 | October 19, 2020 23:15 | 1h | 1,240 | 691 |
| 9 | July 18, 2020 01:00 | July 18, 2020 04:15 | 3h 15m | 1,126 | 855 |
| 10 | November 30, 2020 10:45 | November 30, 2020 19:00 | 8h 15m | 870 | 1,150 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 58 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Georgetown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Santee Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | - | 2.3 hrs | - |
| South Carolina Public Service Authority | 2020 | 49 min | 0.60 | 24 min | 0.39 |
| City of Georgetown - (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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 46,010 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. Georgetown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Georgetown 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/georgetown-county