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2024 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 74.7 hours, a total of 5.5M customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 128th 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 Pickens 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 24, 2024 23:30 | October 12, 2024 19:30 | 17d 20h | 46,768 | 5.4M |
| 2 | July 15, 2024 09:00 | July 17, 2024 03:30 | 1d 18h | 6,258 | 11K |
| 3 | February 28, 2024 16:30 | February 29, 2024 10:45 | 18h 15m | 3,476 | 6,927 |
| 4 | December 16, 2024 13:15 | December 16, 2024 23:30 | 10h 15m | 2,924 | 1,810 |
| 5 | March 15, 2024 12:30 | March 15, 2024 22:00 | 9h 30m | 2,502 | 778 |
| 6 | January 9, 2024 06:00 | January 11, 2024 02:15 | 1d 20h | 2,268 | 17K |
| 7 | March 20, 2024 00:00 | March 20, 2024 00:15 | 15m | 2,266 | 567 |
| 8 | March 26, 2024 00:00 | March 26, 2024 00:15 | 15m | 1,900 | 475 |
| 9 | August 30, 2024 12:00 | August 31, 2024 05:45 | 17h 45m | 1,698 | 901 |
| 10 | July 5, 2024 19:15 | July 6, 2024 22:00 | 1d 2h | 1,655 | 2,013 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 93 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Pickens 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 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc - (SC) | 2024 | 88.2 hrs | - | 3.2 hrs | - |
| Easley Combined Utility System | 2024 | 12.1 hrs | 1.51 | 1.6 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 ÷ 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, 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/pickens-county