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2020 Lee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lee County, SC went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1162nd 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 Lee 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 | January 12, 2020 05:00 | January 12, 2020 20:15 | 15h 15m | 2,031 | 4,830 |
| 2 | March 25, 2020 08:15 | March 25, 2020 11:15 | 3h | 1,379 | 3,103 |
| 3 | September 7, 2020 20:15 | September 7, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,060 | 1,325 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 12:45 | April 14, 2020 02:15 | 13h 30m | 824 | 4,951 |
| 5 | April 20, 2020 05:45 | April 20, 2020 09:15 | 3h 30m | 681 | 1,567 |
| 6 | August 22, 2020 21:30 | August 23, 2020 03:00 | 5h 30m | 598 | 943 |
| 7 | August 29, 2020 17:00 | August 29, 2020 22:00 | 5h | 593 | 2,505 |
| 8 | August 31, 2020 22:30 | September 1, 2020 01:45 | 3h 15m | 585 | 1,315 |
| 9 | September 16, 2020 17:30 | September 17, 2020 22:15 | 1d 4h | 436 | 1,106 |
| 10 | September 25, 2020 14:15 | September 25, 2020 18:45 | 4h 30m | 431 | 867 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 29 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Lee 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Camden | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,675 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county