Fairfield County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fairfield County, South Carolina had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 0.98 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 24 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Aprhardest months

January and April made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 16, 2022, reached 2,650 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.0 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	44,037	31	1
2016	33,739	18	0
2017	30,330	25	2
2018	69,464	26	5
2019	30,716	27	1
2020	43,254	24	3
2021	34,390	20	0
2022	90,215	30	4
2023	39,018	32	3

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
Jan 16, 2022	36.0	2,650	47,548
Apr 15, 2018	25.0	2,717	32,140
Feb 17, 2015	10.2	2,714	16,071
Jan 1, 2020	35.0	624	10,998
Sep 12, 2023	9.2	1,841	9,986

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.