Power outages in Central, SC
Live outages for Central and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Central has 5,298 residents.
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CentralPickens County
Outage history in Pickens County, which includes Central
2014–2025 recordPickens County averaged 31.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for South Carolina counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 33. Half were over within 1 hour; the longest lasted 11 hours, starting June 18, 2025.
The largest on record began September 27, 2024, with 46,768 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in June.
31.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At 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.1.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.12 dayslongest on record (September 2024)
46,768most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| September 27, 2024 | 46,768 | 12 days | 5,363,813 |
| July 27, 2021 | 30,506 | 3 hours | 45,189 |
| October 29, 2020 | 27,670 | 3.5 days | 1,089,595 |
| April 13, 2020 | 22,683 | 2.4 days | 325,109 |
| September 11, 2017 | 15,242 | 3.7 days | 575,715 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From 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.