Beaufort County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Beaufort County, South Carolina had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.42 times the US outage time per person and 1.51 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 12 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

185 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 47,719 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 185.0 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	98,395	74	1
2016	3,744,637	45	2
2017	850,128	122	1
2018	250,030	140	1
2019	477,638	94	2
2020	132,123	90	1
2021	195,931	83	1
2022	212,445	110	3
2023	359,886	101	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	185.0	47,719	3,157,166
Sep 11, 2017	81.5	37,719	729,466
Oct 7, 2016	20.0	47,989	548,516
Sep 5, 2019	48.5	22,756	357,302
Mar 29, 2023	4.2	54,600	125,494

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.