Power outages in Lamar, SC
Live outages for Lamar and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Lamar has 862 residents.
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LamarDarlington County
Outage history in Darlington County, which includes Lamar
2014–2025 recordDarlington County averaged 27.7 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for South Carolina counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 31. Half were over within 1 hour; the longest lasted 11 hours, starting May 5, 2025.
The largest on record began October 8, 2016, with 20,197 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in July.
27.7significant 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.1.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.6.5 dayslongest on record (October 2016)
20,197most 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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| October 8, 2016 | 20,197 | 6.5 days | 1,284,141 |
| May 17, 2016 | 7,662 | 1.5 hours | 9,505 |
| March 5, 2015 | 7,510 | 3.5 hours | 8,555 |
| September 14, 2018 | 7,094 | 3.7 days | 178,170 |
| October 11, 2018 | 6,696 | 23 hours | 37,122 |
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.