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2024 Darlington County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Darlington County, SC went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1714th 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 Darlington 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 | February 1, 2024 09:30 | February 1, 2024 14:45 | 5h 15m | 6,300 | 14K |
| 2 | December 18, 2024 21:15 | December 18, 2024 22:30 | 1h 15m | 5,705 | 1,815 |
| 3 | May 19, 2024 05:30 | May 19, 2024 08:30 | 3h | 3,226 | 5,583 |
| 4 | September 27, 2024 07:00 | September 28, 2024 23:00 | 1d 16h | 2,438 | 11K |
| 5 | May 7, 2024 02:00 | May 7, 2024 06:00 | 4h | 2,321 | 4,741 |
| 6 | April 12, 2024 22:00 | April 13, 2024 03:30 | 5h 30m | 2,152 | 7,188 |
| 7 | April 20, 2024 22:30 | April 21, 2024 08:00 | 9h 30m | 1,853 | 4,483 |
| 8 | May 9, 2024 08:45 | May 9, 2024 13:00 | 4h 15m | 913 | 1,181 |
| 9 | January 9, 2024 17:30 | January 11, 2024 02:30 | 1d 9h | 843 | 4,100 |
| 10 | September 16, 2024 16:00 | September 17, 2024 04:30 | 12h 30m | 826 | 1,415 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 44 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 Darlington 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 Progress - (NC) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| MPD Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 3.5 hrs | 1.63 | 1.5 hrs | 1.00 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,211 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. Darlington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Darlington 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/darlington-county