York County, South Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

York County, South Carolina had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.25 times the US outage time per person and 0.26 times the South Carolina rate. It ranks 45 of 46 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

37 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Sephardest months

April and September made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 13,769 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated South Carolina counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

100K

200K

300K

400K

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	59,086	41	0
2016	105,680	49	0
2017	174,636	65	1
2018	250,386	86	2
2019	92,736	57	0
2020	341,118	62	3
2021	111,127	52	1
2022	317,271	91	5
2023	210,218	94	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

10%

15%

20%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Apr 13, 2020	36.8	13,769	115,664
May 22, 2020	26.0	6,296	79,938
Oct 29, 2020	31.0	7,992	65,572
Jun 3, 2022	14.8	7,326	54,961
Sep 11, 2017	32.2	5,899	54,172

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.