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2021 Kershaw County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kershaw County, SC went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.1 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2374th 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 Kershaw 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 | January 12, 2021 00:30 | January 12, 2021 06:00 | 5h 30m | 7,651 | 9,173 |
| 2 | July 29, 2021 00:45 | July 29, 2021 09:00 | 8h 15m | 5,275 | 1,655 |
| 3 | July 14, 2021 20:45 | July 14, 2021 23:00 | 2h 15m | 4,152 | 3,806 |
| 4 | May 4, 2021 21:15 | May 5, 2021 20:30 | 23h 15m | 3,303 | 13K |
| 5 | June 5, 2021 02:30 | June 6, 2021 19:00 | 1d 16h | 1,927 | 2,338 |
| 6 | August 7, 2021 22:00 | August 8, 2021 15:30 | 17h 30m | 1,395 | 7,006 |
| 7 | March 28, 2021 12:30 | March 28, 2021 23:45 | 11h 15m | 1,216 | 2,404 |
| 8 | March 17, 2021 14:15 | March 17, 2021 17:15 | 3h | 835 | 424 |
| 9 | July 9, 2021 19:30 | July 10, 2021 02:15 | 6h 45m | 776 | 382 |
| 10 | September 14, 2021 18:00 | September 14, 2021 18:15 | 15m | 759 | 190 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 55 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 Kershaw 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 |
| 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) | 2021 | 4.1 hrs | 2.61 | 3.4 hrs | 2.31 |
| Lynches River Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 2.50 | 3.2 hrs | 2.30 |
| Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 43,198 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. Kershaw County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kershaw 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/kershaw-county