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2018 Bamberg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bamberg County, SC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 898th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bamberg County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 11, 2018 09:00 | October 12, 2018 20:30 | 1d 11h | 5,097 | 27K |
| 2 | June 2, 2018 20:45 | June 2, 2018 21:00 | 15m | 1,717 | 429 |
| 3 | May 17, 2018 21:00 | May 18, 2018 02:15 | 5h 15m | 1,503 | 1,567 |
| 4 | August 30, 2018 13:15 | August 30, 2018 16:00 | 2h 45m | 920 | 692 |
| 5 | September 20, 2018 13:45 | September 20, 2018 14:30 | 45m | 918 | 647 |
| 6 | July 22, 2018 06:00 | July 22, 2018 12:15 | 6h 15m | 917 | 5,001 |
| 7 | September 19, 2018 12:30 | September 19, 2018 18:00 | 5h 30m | 819 | 822 |
| 8 | June 25, 2018 03:15 | June 25, 2018 09:15 | 6h | 548 | 955 |
| 9 | April 8, 2018 03:45 | April 8, 2018 07:45 | 4h | 482 | 1,361 |
| 10 | December 15, 2018 17:00 | December 17, 2018 15:30 | 1d 22h | 471 | 1,131 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 32 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.80 | 1.6 hrs | 1.37 |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | - | 74 min | - |
| Coastal Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 5.2 hrs | 2.73 | 3.2 hrs | 2.21 |
| 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 99% of South Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/south-carolina/bamberg-county