Orangeburg County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.79 times the US outage time per person and 0.84 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 31 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

117 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aprhardest months

October and April made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 10,879 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 117.0 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	19,280	19	0
2016	573,716	17	2
2017	56,502	41	1
2018	74,302	47	1
2019	98,554	66	3
2020	336,931	185	7
2021	105,334	89	1
2022	106,047	47	3
2023	74,071	54	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	117.0	10,879	501,270
Apr 13, 2020	39.2	14,062	114,975
Oct 8, 2016	10.2	12,550	54,413
Oct 11, 2018	14.8	5,128	33,895
Sep 11, 2017	26.5	3,466	31,125

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.