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2023 Lee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lee County, SC went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1616th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2023
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 27, 2023 03:45 | June 27, 2023 20:45 | 17h | 1,531 | 5,556 |
| 2 | February 12, 2023 14:45 | February 12, 2023 18:45 | 4h | 1,223 | 2,538 |
| 3 | October 28, 2023 23:00 | October 29, 2023 01:30 | 2h 30m | 598 | 768 |
| 4 | August 30, 2023 22:45 | August 31, 2023 17:15 | 18h 30m | 517 | 1,517 |
| 5 | March 27, 2023 04:45 | March 28, 2023 14:15 | 1d 9h | 458 | 625 |
| 6 | October 8, 2023 02:15 | October 8, 2023 02:30 | 15m | 432 | 108 |
| 7 | February 8, 2023 20:45 | February 8, 2023 22:45 | 2h | 377 | 660 |
| 8 | November 8, 2023 19:00 | November 8, 2023 20:15 | 1h 15m | 371 | 369 |
| 9 | July 12, 2023 18:45 | July 12, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 363 | 384 |
| 10 | March 4, 2023 04:00 | March 4, 2023 11:15 | 7h 15m | 357 | 444 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 29 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | 2.02 | 2.1 hrs | 1.22 |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.18 | 1.9 hrs | 1.13 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of South Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/south-carolina/lee-county