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2024 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 155.9 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 64th 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 Saluda 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 02:45 | October 11, 2024 21:15 | 14d 18h | 15,102 | 1.8M |
| 2 | January 17, 2024 13:30 | January 17, 2024 18:15 | 4h 45m | 5,202 | 3,295 |
| 3 | July 22, 2024 02:45 | July 22, 2024 09:00 | 6h 15m | 4,289 | 8,774 |
| 4 | August 9, 2024 12:00 | August 9, 2024 15:15 | 3h 15m | 4,009 | 1,038 |
| 5 | April 24, 2024 20:30 | April 25, 2024 00:30 | 4h | 3,118 | 853 |
| 6 | May 5, 2024 22:45 | May 6, 2024 00:00 | 1h 15m | 2,202 | 564 |
| 7 | May 8, 2024 20:45 | May 8, 2024 23:00 | 2h 15m | 2,192 | 1,261 |
| 8 | February 29, 2024 13:15 | February 29, 2024 14:00 | 45m | 1,706 | 868 |
| 9 | December 11, 2024 18:15 | December 11, 2024 23:30 | 5h 15m | 1,502 | 1,590 |
| 10 | June 14, 2024 20:30 | June 14, 2024 21:15 | 45m | 1,349 | 1,012 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 61 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Saluda 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 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 132.4 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 65.3 hrs | 3.22 | 2.0 hrs | 1.62 |
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 ÷ 11,824 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. Saluda County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Saluda 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/saluda-county