Spartanburg County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Spartanburg County, South Carolina had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.71 times the US outage time per person and 0.76 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 36 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 9, 2018, reached 30,253 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 86.8 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	264,342	122	0
2016	469,760	148	3
2017	751,662	159	3
2018	1,443,488	158	5
2019	239,213	120	1
2020	1,587,165	172	4
2021	277,830	184	1
2022	399,781	172	5
2023	374,857	221	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
Dec 9, 2018	86.8	30,253	896,824
Oct 29, 2020	80.0	31,486	618,614
Feb 6, 2020	50.5	15,534	537,839
Oct 23, 2017	55.0	20,577	376,480
Feb 24, 2016	51.5	8,756	116,205

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.