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2020 Bamberg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bamberg County, SC went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1551st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bamberg County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 13, 2020 12:45 | April 15, 2020 14:00 | 2d 1h | 4,252 | 11K |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 08:45 | February 7, 2020 17:45 | 9h | 1,634 | 3,668 |
| 3 | June 28, 2020 00:45 | June 29, 2020 19:15 | 1d 18h | 1,492 | 7,111 |
| 4 | January 21, 2020 11:45 | January 21, 2020 13:15 | 1h 30m | 827 | 1,015 |
| 5 | February 13, 2020 19:00 | February 13, 2020 20:30 | 1h 30m | 436 | 584 |
| 6 | February 22, 2020 06:45 | February 22, 2020 10:15 | 3h 30m | 436 | 883 |
| 7 | April 26, 2020 08:15 | April 26, 2020 12:15 | 4h | 433 | 697 |
| 8 | October 15, 2020 15:00 | October 15, 2020 15:45 | 45m | 432 | 324 |
| 9 | May 26, 2020 03:00 | May 26, 2020 03:45 | 45m | 430 | 323 |
| 10 | July 13, 2020 14:45 | July 13, 2020 15:45 | 1h | 394 | 159 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 36 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.4 hrs | 1.40 | 88 min | 1.17 |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 10.8 hrs | - | 3.7 hrs | - |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/south-carolina/bamberg-county