Bamberg County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bamberg County, South Carolina had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.89 times the US outage time per person and 0.94 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 28 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 1,659 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 52.5 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	734	4	0
2016	58,454	3	2
2017	32,116	14	2
2018	44,199	21	1
2019	8,668	13	0
2020	25,412	27	1
2021	4,164	13	0
2022	43,164	23	3
2023	34,285	32	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	52.5	1,659	39,515
Oct 11, 2018	13.2	5,097	23,219
Sep 11, 2017	15.8	2,372	19,066
Oct 8, 2016	11.0	3,041	18,865
May 6, 2022	11.8	2,238	14,245

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.