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2025 Saluda County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Saluda County, SC went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (South Carolina average 3.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 440th 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 Saluda 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 8, 2025 00:30 | June 9, 2025 22:00 | 1d 21h | 12,782 | 97K |
| 2 | June 25, 2025 23:00 | June 26, 2025 17:00 | 18h | 6,777 | 14K |
| 3 | February 16, 2025 11:45 | February 16, 2025 22:00 | 10h 15m | 2,224 | 8,450 |
| 4 | March 31, 2025 20:15 | April 1, 2025 06:15 | 10h | 2,196 | 2,834 |
| 5 | March 5, 2025 18:00 | March 5, 2025 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,685 | 2,527 |
| 6 | July 30, 2025 18:15 | August 11, 2025 16:15 | 11d 22h | 1,587 | 8,936 |
| 7 | July 16, 2025 16:00 | July 28, 2025 21:00 | 12d 5h | 1,526 | 3,266 |
| 8 | October 10, 2025 00:30 | October 16, 2025 15:45 | 6d 15h | 1,523 | 2,277 |
| 9 | June 10, 2025 00:30 | June 10, 2025 19:00 | 18h 30m | 1,519 | 6,178 |
| 10 | June 25, 2025 13:30 | June 25, 2025 18:15 | 4h 45m | 1,518 | 1,429 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 48 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/saluda-county