Greenwood County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Greenwood County, South Carolina had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 29 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 17, 2015, reached 12,550 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 32.5 hours.

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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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	434,323	32	3
2016	53,073	26	1
2017	234,297	28	3
2018	72,592	39	0
2019	156,502	33	2
2020	67,137	38	1
2021	49,505	43	2
2022	136,510	36	3
2023	85,433	53	1

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
Feb 17, 2015	32.5	12,550	223,383
Sep 11, 2017	61.5	6,014	176,931
Feb 17, 2015	15.0	14,786	148,773
Jun 20, 2019	74.8	5,423	93,792
Jan 16, 2022	35.2	4,207	62,699

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.