County annual report · FIPS 45077
2020 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 22.1 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 389th 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 Pickens 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 | October 29, 2020 12:45 | November 6, 2020 02:45 | 7d 14h | 27,670 | 1.1M |
| 2 | April 6, 2020 14:00 | April 16, 2020 23:15 | 10d 9h | 22,683 | 327K |
| 3 | August 21, 2020 03:30 | August 21, 2020 23:45 | 20h 15m | 11,005 | 29K |
| 4 | January 30, 2020 14:30 | January 31, 2020 04:00 | 13h 30m | 10,168 | 32K |
| 5 | June 15, 2020 12:00 | June 16, 2020 02:15 | 14h 15m | 4,213 | 1,552 |
| 6 | April 27, 2020 11:45 | April 27, 2020 20:45 | 9h | 2,901 | 3,312 |
| 7 | November 23, 2020 12:45 | November 23, 2020 18:30 | 5h 45m | 2,839 | 1,301 |
| 8 | December 26, 2020 11:30 | December 26, 2020 18:45 | 7h 15m | 2,821 | 2,872 |
| 9 | September 20, 2020 13:00 | September 20, 2020 13:30 | 30m | 2,612 | 1,049 |
| 10 | July 10, 2020 20:45 | July 12, 2020 09:00 | 1d 12h | 2,596 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 84 reached 100+ customers, 26 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2020 | 3.1 hrs | - | 2.7 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2020 | 5.7 hrs | 2.65 | 2.2 hrs | 1.73 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/pickens-county