Power outages in Chester, SC
Live outages for Chester and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Chester has 5,324 residents.
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ChesterChester County
Outage history in Chester County, which includes Chester
2014–2025 recordChester County averaged 31.7 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for South Carolina counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 30. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 12 hours, starting June 25, 2025.
The largest on record began September 27, 2024, with 12,625 customers out at once.
31.7significant 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.2 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.8.4 dayslongest on record (December 2019)
12,625most 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 | 12,625 | 4.6 days | 542,582 |
| May 22, 2020 | 3,480 | 1.9 days | 62,926 |
| June 16, 2022 | 3,348 | 20 hours | 22,693 |
| November 12, 2021 | 3,262 | 2.5 hours | 3,419 |
| September 16, 2025 | 3,109 | 1 hour | 2,619 |
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.