Oconee County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oconee County, South Carolina had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.97 times the US outage time per person and 2.08 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 6 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

370 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Octhardest months

April and October made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 26,690 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.2 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	172,516	17	3
2016	39,518	29	0
2017	330,180	24	4
2018	204,000	81	6
2019	60,368	47	0
2020	2,221,526	66	13
2021	48,228	51	1
2022	362,851	53	4
2023	128,094	80	2

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 29, 2020	83.2	26,690	692,724
Apr 13, 2020	36.8	20,719	527,753
Sep 11, 2017	76.0	6,933	279,763
Jan 16, 2022	58.0	11,995	247,133
Apr 15, 2020	23.5	10,954	242,597

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.