Jasper County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jasper County, South Carolina had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.20 times the US outage time per person and 1.27 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 20 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

150 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 6,681 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 149.8 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	8,079	13	0
2016	551,794	19	3
2017	110,198	32	1
2018	41,109	28	1
2019	37,305	33	1
2020	21,935	29	0
2021	50,432	29	2
2022	46,992	39	2
2023	70,837	43	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	149.8	6,681	458,873
Sep 11, 2017	54.2	4,360	83,243
Oct 8, 2016	17.2	6,614	76,108
Oct 11, 2018	16.5	4,605	28,048
Aug 30, 2023	18.8	2,464	24,928

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.