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2024 Lee County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lee County, SC went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1157th 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 Lee 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 | June 22, 2024 03:30 | June 22, 2024 06:15 | 2h 45m | 3,306 | 5,382 |
| 2 | May 30, 2024 13:30 | May 30, 2024 14:45 | 1h 15m | 3,264 | 1,633 |
| 3 | May 7, 2024 09:00 | May 7, 2024 10:45 | 1h 45m | 1,868 | 1,471 |
| 4 | June 8, 2024 08:00 | June 8, 2024 12:00 | 4h | 1,369 | 1,090 |
| 5 | May 30, 2024 10:15 | May 30, 2024 10:30 | 15m | 1,333 | 333 |
| 6 | May 5, 2024 01:45 | May 5, 2024 03:45 | 2h | 989 | 763 |
| 7 | September 27, 2024 04:45 | September 28, 2024 21:30 | 1d 16h | 877 | 11K |
| 8 | January 9, 2024 16:45 | January 10, 2024 17:15 | 1d | 705 | 3,079 |
| 9 | July 20, 2024 00:45 | July 20, 2024 08:45 | 8h | 558 | 729 |
| 10 | August 3, 2024 21:00 | August 4, 2024 04:30 | 7h 30m | 546 | 1,177 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 29 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | 2024 | 3.8 hrs | 2.00 | 1.6 hrs | 1.35 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/lee-county