Pickens County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pickens County, South Carolina had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.24 times the US outage time per person and 1.31 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 18 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

103 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 27,670 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 102.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	177,728	48	2
2016	96,392	35	3
2017	670,798	37	2
2018	479,618	102	5
2019	91,151	70	0
2020	1,592,325	75	4
2021	234,842	70	3
2022	282,308	60	3
2023	144,669	79	3

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 29, 2020	102.8	27,670	1,096,029
Sep 11, 2017	94.5	15,242	578,711
Apr 13, 2020	36.8	22,683	290,266
Dec 9, 2018	63.8	6,655	160,373
Jun 24, 2018	33.8	8,484	134,541

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.