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2025 Pickens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Pickens County, SC went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 210K customer-hours (South Carolina average 3.0 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2127th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pickens County, 2025
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 18, 2025 00:30 | June 19, 2025 20:00 | 1d 19h | 7,958 | 26K |
| 2 | November 29, 2025 17:45 | November 29, 2025 19:00 | 1h 15m | 7,772 | 3,765 |
| 3 | July 30, 2025 23:15 | August 1, 2025 05:30 | 1d 6h | 4,139 | 9,755 |
| 4 | June 15, 2025 11:45 | June 15, 2025 20:15 | 8h 30m | 3,720 | 8,493 |
| 5 | September 4, 2025 12:15 | September 5, 2025 10:45 | 22h 30m | 3,365 | 4,985 |
| 6 | March 16, 2025 08:15 | March 17, 2025 00:30 | 16h 15m | 3,296 | 7,307 |
| 7 | July 5, 2025 11:15 | July 5, 2025 23:15 | 12h | 2,450 | 4,228 |
| 8 | June 7, 2025 17:00 | June 9, 2025 18:45 | 2d 1h | 2,120 | 13K |
| 9 | August 14, 2025 06:15 | August 14, 2025 07:45 | 1h 30m | 2,045 | 1,551 |
| 10 | August 12, 2025 08:15 | August 12, 2025 19:45 | 11h 30m | 2,019 | 1,904 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 117 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Pickens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/south-carolina/pickens-county