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2024 Bamberg County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bamberg County, SC went without power for an average of 35.3 hours, a total of 308K customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 275th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bamberg County, 2024
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 27, 2024 04:45 | October 4, 2024 21:00 | 7d 16h | 4,503 | 274K |
| 2 | March 4, 2024 13:15 | March 6, 2024 23:00 | 2d 9h | 1,740 | 1,235 |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 13:30 | January 10, 2024 21:15 | 1d 7h | 1,273 | 13K |
| 4 | August 6, 2024 04:00 | August 7, 2024 00:00 | 20h | 672 | 3,249 |
| 5 | August 3, 2024 23:45 | August 4, 2024 09:00 | 9h 15m | 639 | 1,506 |
| 6 | April 11, 2024 12:00 | April 11, 2024 20:45 | 8h 45m | 458 | 1,162 |
| 7 | May 28, 2024 17:15 | May 28, 2024 17:30 | 15m | 413 | 103 |
| 8 | October 27, 2024 12:30 | October 28, 2024 13:00 | 1d | 411 | 1,251 |
| 9 | February 28, 2024 00:15 | February 28, 2024 01:45 | 1h 30m | 408 | 408 |
| 10 | December 20, 2024 20:45 | December 20, 2024 23:15 | 2h 30m | 407 | 121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 31 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 31.8 hrs | 2.52 | 81 min | 1.19 |
| Edisto Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 39.2 hrs | - | 4.9 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 n/a of South Carolina's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/south-carolina/bamberg-county