Cherokee County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 0.42 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 43 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

32 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2022, reached 12,546 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 24.0 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	6,443	12	0
2016	33,683	18	1
2017	76,352	25	1
2018	20,495	19	1
2019	23,542	18	0
2020	142,211	31	4
2021	19,918	18	0
2022	143,387	41	5
2023	37,869	36	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
Jun 16, 2022	24.0	12,546	59,336
Oct 23, 2017	29.5	4,511	44,976
May 22, 2020	26.5	4,302	39,524
Dec 27, 2020	10.2	3,544	34,254
Oct 29, 2020	31.8	2,098	25,845

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.