Florence County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Florence County, South Carolina had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.77 times the US outage time per person and 1.87 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 7 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

164 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 83% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 48,077 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 163.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	94,559	56	3
2016	4,038,779	70	6
2017	112,256	79	1
2018	428,602	91	4
2019	78,098	56	1
2020	69,753	87	0
2021	63,017	71	1
2022	275,826	70	4
2023	211,166	66	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
Oct 8, 2016	163.8	48,077	3,722,288
Sep 15, 2018	30.2	12,740	232,636
Oct 8, 2016	9.0	27,300	99,353
Sep 2, 2016	24.5	8,952	95,560
Aug 30, 2023	21.5	8,302	78,947

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.