Kershaw County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kershaw County, South Carolina had 11 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 0.43 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.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

76 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 3,464 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.5 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	19,986	19	0
2016	158,183	21	2
2017	24,489	17	1
2018	69,125	43	1
2019	70,345	32	1
2020	31,032	31	0
2021	50,324	31	2
2022	169,606	44	3
2023	45,059	42	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	75.5	3,464	112,708
Jan 16, 2022	59.8	9,062	105,990
Oct 8, 2016	9.8	3,543	20,238
Jun 20, 2019	9.2	5,420	19,776
Jun 16, 2022	11.0	2,693	13,706

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.