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2022 Laurens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Laurens County, SC went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2006th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Laurens County, 2022
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 16, 2022 11:30 | January 18, 2022 09:00 | 1d 21h | 5,477 | 98K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 08:45 | December 25, 2022 02:15 | 1d 17h | 4,675 | 31K |
| 3 | March 12, 2022 18:30 | March 13, 2022 01:45 | 7h 15m | 2,360 | 2,612 |
| 4 | November 11, 2022 05:30 | November 11, 2022 15:45 | 10h 15m | 2,291 | 11K |
| 5 | July 5, 2022 19:15 | July 5, 2022 22:00 | 2h 45m | 1,867 | 1,048 |
| 6 | July 20, 2022 21:30 | July 21, 2022 03:45 | 6h 15m | 1,865 | 1,872 |
| 7 | June 3, 2022 15:45 | June 4, 2022 10:00 | 18h 15m | 1,723 | 7,595 |
| 8 | November 8, 2022 17:15 | November 9, 2022 00:30 | 7h 15m | 1,526 | 2,087 |
| 9 | May 26, 2022 23:15 | May 27, 2022 13:15 | 14h | 1,449 | 3,403 |
| 10 | January 19, 2022 16:15 | January 19, 2022 21:45 | 5h 30m | 949 | 258 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 62 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 Laurens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 4.3 hrs | 1.87 | 1.6 hrs | 1.07 |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | - | 2.6 hrs | - |
| Clinton Combined Utility Sys | 2013 | 50 min | 0.87 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 71,549 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens County, SC annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/south-carolina/laurens-county