Edgefield County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Edgefield County, South Carolina had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.49 times the US outage time per person and 0.52 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 38 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

33 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aprhardest months

September and April made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 3,991 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 33.2 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	22,281	15	2
2016	4,186	9	0
2017	88,072	31	2
2018	30,648	37	2
2019	39,098	26	3
2020	27,078	32	1
2021	15,006	27	0
2022	53,084	35	1
2023	40,253	31	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
Sep 11, 2017	33.2	3,991	41,557
Apr 5, 2017	15.0	2,941	20,454
Mar 3, 2019	22.8	1,739	18,797
Jul 21, 2023	12.0	4,367	13,382
Oct 4, 2015	12.0	2,899	11,838

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.