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2020 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1485th 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 Saluda 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 | October 29, 2020 19:30 | 6h 45m | 4,214 | 4,937 |
| 2 | October 30, 2020 05:00 | October 30, 2020 10:15 | 5h 15m | 3,981 | 3,305 |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 12:45 | April 14, 2020 22:15 | 1d 9h | 2,574 | 13K |
| 4 | January 12, 2020 02:30 | January 12, 2020 20:30 | 18h | 1,978 | 5,573 |
| 5 | April 20, 2020 20:15 | April 21, 2020 15:00 | 18h 45m | 1,383 | 740 |
| 6 | April 24, 2020 20:15 | April 24, 2020 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,368 | 1,029 |
| 7 | May 29, 2020 23:30 | May 30, 2020 09:00 | 9h 30m | 1,186 | 2,436 |
| 8 | April 23, 2020 16:00 | April 24, 2020 03:15 | 11h 15m | 720 | 2,215 |
| 9 | November 18, 2020 13:30 | November 18, 2020 17:30 | 4h | 706 | 1,343 |
| 10 | April 27, 2020 23:45 | April 28, 2020 09:45 | 10h | 694 | 5,760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2020 | 2.4 hrs | 1.40 | 88 min | 1.17 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 3.4 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 3.2 hrs | 2.27 | 1.8 hrs | 1.67 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/saluda-county