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2017 Bamberg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bamberg County, SC went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (South Carolina average 4.4 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 999th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bamberg County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 11, 2017 13:15 | September 13, 2017 00:45 | 1d 11h | 2,372 | 26K |
| 2 | April 3, 2017 21:30 | April 3, 2017 23:15 | 1h 45m | 873 | 875 |
| 3 | April 1, 2017 17:00 | April 1, 2017 18:15 | 1h 15m | 731 | 714 |
| 4 | January 21, 2017 21:15 | January 23, 2017 09:45 | 1d 12h | 684 | 3,387 |
| 5 | March 27, 2017 23:30 | March 28, 2017 03:00 | 3h 30m | 285 | 829 |
| 6 | April 17, 2017 17:30 | April 17, 2017 20:30 | 3h | 275 | 822 |
| 7 | July 18, 2017 20:00 | July 19, 2017 02:15 | 6h 15m | 255 | 1,195 |
| 8 | July 8, 2017 22:30 | July 9, 2017 03:15 | 4h 45m | 250 | 980 |
| 9 | July 7, 2017 21:15 | July 7, 2017 23:15 | 2h | 245 | 331 |
| 10 | March 29, 2017 14:00 | March 29, 2017 15:45 | 1h 45m | 211 | 146 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 22 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Bamberg County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2017 | 5.5 hrs | 1.85 | 82 min | 1.14 |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | - | 50 min | - |
| Coastal Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 7.1 hrs | 2.78 | 3.5 hrs | 2.01 |
| Bamberg Board of Public Works | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of South Carolina's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,728 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Bamberg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bamberg County, SC annual power outage report, 2017, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2017/south-carolina/bamberg-county