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2021 Abbeville County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Abbeville County, SC went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 984th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Abbeville County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 20, 2021 10:45 | May 20, 2021 12:00 | 1h 15m | 3,518 | 4,398 |
| 2 | May 8, 2021 12:00 | May 8, 2021 18:15 | 6h 15m | 2,017 | 11K |
| 3 | May 1, 2021 12:00 | May 1, 2021 16:30 | 4h 30m | 2,016 | 5,896 |
| 4 | May 3, 2021 18:30 | May 4, 2021 08:45 | 14h 15m | 1,929 | 9,050 |
| 5 | October 7, 2021 14:30 | October 7, 2021 23:30 | 9h | 1,240 | 2,923 |
| 6 | April 20, 2021 10:45 | April 20, 2021 20:00 | 9h 15m | 988 | 3,291 |
| 7 | December 19, 2021 05:15 | December 19, 2021 11:00 | 5h 45m | 841 | 3,059 |
| 8 | March 30, 2021 20:45 | March 30, 2021 22:30 | 1h 45m | 655 | 1,146 |
| 9 | April 6, 2021 10:15 | April 6, 2021 22:30 | 12h 15m | 643 | 4,478 |
| 10 | August 14, 2021 19:30 | August 15, 2021 01:15 | 5h 45m | 543 | 1,242 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 41 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Abbeville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2021 | 1.5 hrs | 1.10 | 79 min | 1.02 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 84 min | 0.92 | 84 min | 0.92 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Abbeville - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Due West - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,846 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. Abbeville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Abbeville County, SC annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/south-carolina/abbeville-county