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2022 Lee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lee County, SC went without power for an average of 21.8 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 295th 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 Lee 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 | June 16, 2022 22:30 | June 18, 2022 19:15 | 1d 20h | 4,774 | 53K |
| 2 | January 16, 2022 12:30 | January 17, 2022 23:15 | 1d 10h | 2,388 | 25K |
| 3 | August 4, 2022 00:30 | August 4, 2022 03:00 | 2h 30m | 1,683 | 3,365 |
| 4 | September 14, 2022 03:00 | September 14, 2022 04:45 | 1h 45m | 1,659 | 2,903 |
| 5 | September 29, 2022 21:30 | October 2, 2022 00:15 | 2d 2h | 1,613 | 17K |
| 6 | December 23, 2022 12:00 | December 24, 2022 02:30 | 14h 30m | 856 | 3,967 |
| 7 | January 3, 2022 09:00 | January 4, 2022 14:00 | 1d 5h | 778 | 5,380 |
| 8 | June 30, 2022 19:45 | June 30, 2022 22:45 | 3h | 456 | 684 |
| 9 | June 9, 2022 16:00 | June 9, 2022 17:30 | 1h 30m | 454 | 568 |
| 10 | May 6, 2022 22:15 | May 7, 2022 09:00 | 10h 45m | 364 | 680 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 27 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lee 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 Progress - (NC) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | 2022 | 4.9 hrs | 2.00 | 68 min | 0.92 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,675 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county