Georgetown County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.28 times the US outage time per person and 1.35 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 16 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

139 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 19,748 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 139.2 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	17,228	12	0
2016	880,015	21	2
2017	76,092	36	2
2018	107,538	71	1
2019	292,565	52	1
2020	89,664	54	3
2021	37,964	49	0
2022	320,316	67	3
2023	31,474	43	0

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	139.2	19,748	835,542
Sep 5, 2019	57.2	9,974	250,941
Sep 30, 2022	14.8	24,329	160,659
Oct 1, 2022	40.0	6,775	109,545
Sep 15, 2018	13.5	4,736	44,364

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.