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2024 Abbeville County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Abbeville County, SC went without power for an average of 155.1 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 66th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Abbeville County, 2024
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 27, 2024 02:30 | October 13, 2024 00:15 | 15d 21h | 9,954 | 1.5M |
| 2 | November 7, 2024 01:45 | November 8, 2024 00:00 | 22h 15m | 1,425 | 4,938 |
| 3 | November 5, 2024 13:15 | November 5, 2024 22:00 | 8h 45m | 1,095 | 3,293 |
| 4 | January 9, 2024 14:00 | January 10, 2024 00:00 | 10h | 884 | 2,595 |
| 5 | July 5, 2024 22:15 | July 6, 2024 07:30 | 9h 15m | 855 | 2,305 |
| 6 | April 12, 2024 19:00 | April 13, 2024 05:45 | 10h 45m | 788 | 973 |
| 7 | July 24, 2024 23:15 | July 25, 2024 03:00 | 3h 45m | 783 | 573 |
| 8 | July 21, 2024 21:15 | July 22, 2024 01:30 | 4h 15m | 775 | 2,422 |
| 9 | July 3, 2024 12:45 | July 3, 2024 16:15 | 3h 30m | 760 | 711 |
| 10 | April 11, 2024 20:00 | April 12, 2024 02:15 | 6h 15m | 698 | 679 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 53 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Abbeville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2024 | 31.8 hrs | 2.52 | 81 min | 1.19 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 138.5 hrs | 2.84 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Abbeville - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Due West - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,846 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. Abbeville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Abbeville County, SC annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/south-carolina/abbeville-county