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2023 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 189K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2099th 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 Pickens 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 | July 1, 2023 17:15 | July 4, 2023 01:00 | 2d 7h | 7,504 | 74K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 10:00 | April 2, 2023 22:30 | 1d 12h | 2,926 | 8,396 |
| 3 | July 31, 2023 20:15 | July 31, 2023 23:30 | 3h 15m | 2,867 | 759 |
| 4 | August 7, 2023 13:45 | August 8, 2023 09:00 | 19h 15m | 2,847 | 5,484 |
| 5 | June 11, 2023 16:00 | June 12, 2023 00:30 | 8h 30m | 1,845 | 7,988 |
| 6 | August 12, 2023 21:30 | August 13, 2023 17:00 | 19h 30m | 1,293 | 5,082 |
| 7 | May 16, 2023 08:30 | May 18, 2023 00:00 | 1d 15h | 1,195 | 3,193 |
| 8 | July 12, 2023 01:30 | July 12, 2023 14:30 | 13h | 1,182 | 2,806 |
| 9 | August 24, 2023 13:00 | August 25, 2023 07:30 | 18h 30m | 1,131 | 1,652 |
| 10 | September 4, 2023 07:00 | September 4, 2023 07:15 | 15m | 1,089 | 272 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 86 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | - | 2.8 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.33 |
| 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 n/a of South Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 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/pickens-county