County annual report · FIPS 45077
2021 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 278K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1605th 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 Pickens 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 01:15 | July 27, 2021 04:30 | 3h 15m | 30,506 | 45K |
| 2 | July 27, 2021 15:30 | July 28, 2021 22:30 | 1d 7h | 9,067 | 61K |
| 3 | February 7, 2021 01:45 | February 8, 2021 01:15 | 23h 30m | 6,067 | 40K |
| 4 | June 23, 2021 13:45 | June 23, 2021 16:00 | 2h 15m | 5,294 | 2,644 |
| 5 | July 23, 2021 13:45 | July 25, 2021 01:00 | 1d 11h | 3,886 | 22K |
| 6 | November 3, 2021 04:45 | November 3, 2021 20:45 | 16h | 3,361 | 9,103 |
| 7 | July 10, 2021 13:00 | July 10, 2021 15:45 | 2h 45m | 2,641 | 2,477 |
| 8 | May 11, 2021 12:15 | May 13, 2021 00:45 | 1d 12h | 1,687 | 2,152 |
| 9 | May 28, 2021 22:00 | May 30, 2021 02:45 | 1d 4h | 1,566 | 8,912 |
| 10 | April 10, 2021 17:15 | April 12, 2021 08:15 | 1d 15h | 1,495 | 5,049 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 73 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2021 | 2.3 hrs | - | 2.0 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2021 | 76 min | 1.36 | 76 min | 1.36 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/pickens-county