Power Outages in Beaufort County, SC
No live outage feed is available for Beaufort County, SC yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.4 hours.
Beaufort County, SC is served by local tracked utilities.
Beaufort 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.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Beaufort County has been under 17 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 18, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×10
- Special Weather Statement ×4
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×2
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Beaufort County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Beaufort County went about 1.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 55,188 customers.
Worst year here was 2016 (peak 47,989 customers out) · decade average 6.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 769 | 8,670 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 688 | 47,989 | 29.7 |
| 2017 | 931 | 37,719 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 987 | 16,371 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 812 | 22,756 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 822 | 9,896 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 821 | 16,374 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 883 | 15,283 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 967 | 54,600 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 943 | 55,188 | 13.8 |
| 2025 | 821 | 7,607 | 1.4 |
Very High hurricanes exposure · 6.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Beaufort County: FAQ
- How often does Beaufort County, SC lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Beaufort County, SC logged 821 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Beaufort County, SC?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 55,188 customers without power, beginning September 26, 2024 and lasting about 16d 2h.
- Is there a power outage in Beaufort County, SC right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Beaufort County, SC. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Beaufort County.
29902, 29904, 29905, 29906, 29907, 29909, 29910, 29915, 29920, 29926, 29928, 29935, 29940, 29941
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/45013 and /api/v1/counties/45013/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of South Carolina customers).