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2021 Bamberg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bamberg County, SC went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 9,983 customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.1 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2607th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bamberg County, 2021
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 12, 2021 04:00 | September 12, 2021 05:00 | 1h | 861 | 628 |
| 2 | June 13, 2021 17:30 | June 13, 2021 21:45 | 4h 15m | 490 | 362 |
| 3 | August 22, 2021 11:30 | August 22, 2021 13:00 | 1h 30m | 484 | 726 |
| 4 | December 15, 2021 17:15 | December 15, 2021 17:45 | 30m | 484 | 122 |
| 5 | May 4, 2021 22:45 | May 5, 2021 10:30 | 11h 45m | 408 | 951 |
| 6 | June 4, 2021 12:45 | June 4, 2021 14:30 | 1h 45m | 381 | 293 |
| 7 | June 7, 2021 21:00 | June 7, 2021 23:45 | 2h 45m | 352 | 617 |
| 8 | March 25, 2021 14:15 | March 25, 2021 16:15 | 2h | 350 | 262 |
| 9 | November 16, 2021 19:15 | November 16, 2021 21:15 | 2h | 319 | 242 |
| 10 | July 17, 2021 21:45 | July 18, 2021 00:45 | 3h | 209 | 412 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 1.5 hrs | 1.10 | 79 min | 1.02 |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 3.0 hrs | - | 3.0 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/south-carolina/bamberg-county