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2021 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1421st 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 Saluda 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 28, 2021 18:15 | July 28, 2021 19:45 | 1h 30m | 16,995 | 18K |
| 2 | April 24, 2021 15:30 | April 24, 2021 22:00 | 6h 30m | 4,379 | 6,592 |
| 3 | August 13, 2021 14:45 | August 13, 2021 15:15 | 30m | 4,321 | 2,140 |
| 4 | June 7, 2021 13:00 | June 8, 2021 00:15 | 11h 15m | 4,243 | 2,641 |
| 5 | July 2, 2021 21:15 | July 3, 2021 00:45 | 3h 30m | 2,852 | 4,145 |
| 6 | August 11, 2021 20:45 | August 12, 2021 03:45 | 7h | 639 | 2,875 |
| 7 | May 20, 2021 23:45 | May 21, 2021 01:15 | 1h 30m | 633 | 634 |
| 8 | April 21, 2021 19:45 | April 21, 2021 22:15 | 2h 30m | 607 | 468 |
| 9 | July 27, 2021 00:00 | July 27, 2021 13:00 | 13h | 602 | 3,741 |
| 10 | June 4, 2021 01:45 | June 4, 2021 05:45 | 4h | 407 | 432 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 30 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Saluda 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 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 1.9 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 2.3 hrs | 2.13 | 1.6 hrs | 1.84 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/saluda-county