Calhoun County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Calhoun County, South Carolina had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.76 times the US outage time per person and 0.81 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 33 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

97 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 2,719 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 97.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	292	1	0
2016	116,855	6	1
2017	3,526	9	0
2018	28,343	23	1
2019	24,322	27	0
2020	18,608	21	0
2021	13,391	12	0
2022	20,107	23	2
2023	13,338	22	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
Oct 8, 2016	97.0	2,719	97,504
Oct 8, 2016	7.0	2,713	18,156
Oct 11, 2018	12.2	2,264	14,100
Dec 25, 2020	5.0	2,049	7,462
Nov 12, 2022	20.8	314	6,256

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.