Aiken County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Aiken County, South Carolina had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.43 times the US outage time per person and 0.45 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 41 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

51 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 24,396 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 50.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	62,746	57	2
2016	61,960	35	1
2017	408,434	111	4
2018	290,034	100	1
2019	248,379	100	1
2020	123,562	74	2
2021	133,095	103	0
2022	205,944	98	2
2023	156,766	96	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 11, 2017	50.8	24,396	245,529
Oct 11, 2018	21.8	19,096	140,642
Jun 20, 2019	49.0	11,688	124,340
Jan 3, 2022	16.2	15,324	86,325
Jul 21, 2023	14.2	9,171	46,601

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.