Lexington County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lexington County, South Carolina had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.43 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 41 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

53 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Octhardest months

June and October made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 30,565 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.0 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	172,415	103	1
2016	251,252	71	3
2017	543,003	152	3
2018	519,048	185	4
2019	378,729	140	3
2020	293,990	150	2
2021	192,084	135	2
2022	355,592	180	4
2023	271,570	171	3

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
Sep 11, 2017	53.0	30,565	299,788
Apr 15, 2018	31.8	39,448	206,981
Jun 20, 2019	22.5	30,997	111,656
Oct 8, 2016	10.0	21,165	96,978
Oct 11, 2018	19.2	13,704	96,064

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.