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2022 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1306th 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 Saluda 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 | September 2, 2022 05:00 | September 2, 2022 05:45 | 45m | 4,402 | 3,236 |
| 2 | July 3, 2022 22:45 | July 4, 2022 03:00 | 4h 15m | 4,398 | 5,535 |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 09:15 | December 23, 2022 23:15 | 14h | 2,273 | 8,106 |
| 4 | September 11, 2022 04:15 | September 11, 2022 07:30 | 3h 15m | 2,167 | 7,043 |
| 5 | August 1, 2022 19:00 | August 1, 2022 20:45 | 1h 45m | 2,166 | 1,405 |
| 6 | June 26, 2022 04:30 | June 26, 2022 04:45 | 15m | 1,574 | 394 |
| 7 | January 3, 2022 07:00 | January 4, 2022 02:30 | 19h 30m | 1,514 | 8,166 |
| 8 | November 24, 2022 20:00 | November 25, 2022 01:15 | 5h 15m | 707 | 376 |
| 9 | November 30, 2022 12:00 | November 30, 2022 14:00 | 2h | 637 | 821 |
| 10 | January 23, 2022 07:45 | January 23, 2022 10:15 | 2h 30m | 636 | 1,590 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 41 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Saluda 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 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2022 | 3.9 hrs | 1.93 | 78 min | 1.07 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 3.5 hrs | - | 2.0 hrs | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 3.0 hrs | 2.50 | 2.0 hrs | 2.09 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/saluda-county