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2024 Cherokee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cherokee County, SC went without power for an average of 68.4 hours, a total of 2.7M customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 146th 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 Cherokee 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 02:00 | October 12, 2024 16:45 | 15d 14h | 20,452 | 2.7M |
| 2 | July 31, 2024 23:30 | August 1, 2024 04:15 | 4h 45m | 2,529 | 4,908 |
| 3 | August 11, 2024 04:30 | August 11, 2024 05:45 | 1h 15m | 2,285 | 2,856 |
| 4 | August 18, 2024 20:45 | August 19, 2024 12:45 | 16h | 2,045 | 2,859 |
| 5 | March 13, 2024 18:30 | March 14, 2024 00:30 | 6h | 1,851 | 470 |
| 6 | February 1, 2024 13:45 | February 1, 2024 14:45 | 1h | 1,839 | 1,721 |
| 7 | May 5, 2024 02:15 | May 5, 2024 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,791 | 3,134 |
| 8 | May 6, 2024 17:15 | May 6, 2024 18:00 | 45m | 1,715 | 1,134 |
| 9 | August 16, 2024 19:30 | August 17, 2024 00:00 | 4h 30m | 1,430 | 2,311 |
| 10 | July 29, 2024 13:00 | July 29, 2024 13:45 | 45m | 1,203 | 902 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 43 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cherokee 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 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 16.3 hrs | 2.20 | 89 min | 1.69 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lockhart Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gaffney - (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 ÷ 39,741 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county