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2022 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 319K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1574th 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 Pickens 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 09:15 | January 19, 2022 00:45 | 2d 15h | 6,872 | 110K |
| 2 | January 3, 2022 07:15 | January 6, 2022 00:15 | 2d 17h | 4,483 | 49K |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 09:00 | December 25, 2022 01:15 | 1d 16h | 4,261 | 34K |
| 4 | July 31, 2022 11:15 | August 1, 2022 06:15 | 19h | 2,835 | 5,734 |
| 5 | September 5, 2022 09:00 | September 6, 2022 06:30 | 21h 30m | 2,762 | 13K |
| 6 | May 23, 2022 13:15 | May 24, 2022 03:15 | 14h | 2,295 | 8,624 |
| 7 | July 8, 2022 21:30 | July 9, 2022 07:15 | 9h 45m | 2,191 | 4,946 |
| 8 | November 24, 2022 14:00 | November 25, 2022 01:45 | 11h 45m | 1,658 | 5,691 |
| 9 | March 10, 2022 14:15 | March 10, 2022 20:30 | 6h 15m | 1,286 | 655 |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 11:15 | March 13, 2022 06:00 | 18h 45m | 1,285 | 2,015 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 67 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Pickens 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 1.27 | 1.7 hrs | 1.27 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/pickens-county