South Carolina power outages

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Outage history in South Carolina

2014–2025 record

South Carolina averaged 5 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 5. Half were over within 2.5 hours; the longest lasted 19 hours, starting June 8, 2025.

The largest on record began September 27, 2024, with 1,372,295 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in June.

5significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.
6.5 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
11 dayslongest on record (September 2024)
1,372,295most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
September 27, 20241,372,29511 days132,914,583
October 8, 2016610,5925.9 days31,499,201
April 13, 2020285,81432 hours2,648,998
September 11, 2017262,7652.3 days6,766,177
September 30, 2022248,34027 hours2,696,906

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

iFrom EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.