Power Outages in Bamberg County, SC
No live outage feed is available for Bamberg County, SC yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.5 hours.
Bamberg County, SC is served by local tracked utilities.
Bamberg County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Bamberg County right now.
Bamberg County has been under 82 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on August 31, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×26
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×20
- Heat Advisory ×19
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×9
- Flash Flood Warning ×3
- Flood Watch ×2
Hardest-hit cities in Bamberg County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Bamberg County went about 2.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 5,097 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 4,503 customers out) · decade average 6.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 149 | 604 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 135 | 3,041 | 7.4 |
| 2017 | 330 | 2,372 | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 349 | 5,097 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 194 | 1,020 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 308 | 4,252 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 279 | 861 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 301 | 3,408 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 433 | 3,135 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 356 | 4,503 | 35.3 |
| 2025 | 338 | 904 | 2.5 |
Relatively Moderate hurricanes exposure · 6.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Bamberg County: FAQ
- How often does Bamberg County, SC lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Bamberg County, SC logged 338 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Bamberg County, SC?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 5,097 customers without power, beginning October 11, 2018 and lasting about 1d 11h.
- Is there a power outage in Bamberg County, SC right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Bamberg County, SC. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Bamberg County.
29003, 29042, 29081, 29843
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/45009 and /api/v1/counties/45009/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of South Carolina customers).