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2021 Georgetown County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Georgetown County, SC went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.1 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2602nd 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 Georgetown 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 | July 27, 2021 17:30 | July 28, 2021 03:45 | 10h 15m | 3,876 | 12K |
| 2 | March 29, 2021 10:00 | March 29, 2021 19:45 | 9h 45m | 3,506 | 2,660 |
| 3 | May 21, 2021 12:15 | May 21, 2021 13:00 | 45m | 3,200 | 1,601 |
| 4 | February 16, 2021 09:45 | February 16, 2021 12:00 | 2h 15m | 1,536 | 3,454 |
| 5 | December 28, 2021 05:00 | December 28, 2021 05:30 | 30m | 1,263 | 632 |
| 6 | April 8, 2021 02:00 | April 8, 2021 03:15 | 1h 15m | 1,252 | 1,251 |
| 7 | April 8, 2021 00:00 | April 8, 2021 00:15 | 15m | 1,250 | 313 |
| 8 | March 28, 2021 22:00 | March 29, 2021 00:30 | 2h 30m | 1,131 | 890 |
| 9 | February 14, 2021 03:00 | February 14, 2021 13:45 | 10h 45m | 1,063 | 1,862 |
| 10 | January 28, 2021 08:15 | January 28, 2021 11:30 | 3h 15m | 945 | 1,234 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 53 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 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 Progress - (NC) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Santee Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.3 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| South Carolina Public Service Authority | 2021 | 2.2 hrs | 0.79 | 19 min | 0.27 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/georgetown-county