Allendale County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Allendale County, South Carolina had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.50 times the US outage time per person and 1.59 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 11 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 77% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 3,531 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 94.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated South Carolina counties

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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	962	5	0
2016	163,802	4	2
2017	16,299	7	2
2018	17,270	9	1
2019	4,016	8	0
2020	5,864	4	0
2021	10,999	12	0
2022	12,012	12	1
2023	17,939	16	1

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
Oct 8, 2016	94.5	3,531	136,945
Oct 8, 2016	13.5	2,789	24,648
Oct 11, 2018	13.2	2,735	13,188
Sep 11, 2017	16.0	851	9,010
Aug 30, 2023	19.0	615	7,890

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.