Power outages in South Carolina
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
803
customers reported out statewide · 5 counties reporting · 1 with 50+ customers out
Updated 3:00 AM EDT.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Charleston — 791 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here like this ran ~4 hr start to finish (13 on record)
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
All South Carolina counties (46)
- Abbeville
- Aiken
- Allendale
- Anderson
- Bamberg
- Barnwell
- Beaufort
- Berkeley
- Calhoun
- Charleston
- Cherokee
- Chester
- Chesterfield
- Clarendon
- Colleton
- Darlington
- Dillon
- Dorchester
- Edgefield
- Fairfield
- Florence
- Georgetown
- Greenville
- Greenwood
- Hampton
- Horry
- Jasper
- Kershaw
- Lancaster
- Laurens
- Lee
- Lexington
- Marion
- Marlboro
- McCormick
- Newberry
- Oconee
- Orangeburg
- Pickens
- Richland
- Saluda
- Spartanburg
- Sumter
- Union
- Williamsburg
- York
Utility coverage in South Carolina
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Duke Energy Carolinas (NC/SC) · Dominion Energy South Carolina (SC) · Dominion Energy (all states) · Duke Energy (all states)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
SC Electric Cooperatives (ECSC statewide map) · Santee Cooper (SC Public Service Authority) · Berkeley Electric Cooperative (SC) · Horry Electric Cooperative (SC) · Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative (SC) · Santee Electric Cooperative (SC) · Rock Hill Utilities (SC) · Broad River Electric Cooperative (SC) · City of Orangeburg DPU (SC) · Lynches River Electric Cooperative (SC) · Coastal Electric Cooperative (SC) · Gaffney Board of Public Works (SC) · +3 more — search any utility name on the live map
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving South Carolina.
Historical outage patterns in South Carolina
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 25,386 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in South Carolina between 2014 and 2025 across all 46 counties — 262 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2.5 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (35% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2025.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~270,050 customers out in Greenville County in September 2024, restored after about 10.1 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: September 2024 (31 counties), October 2016 (18 counties) and June 2025 (9 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Greenville County (~5 hr typical), Anderson County (~4.3 hr typical) and Spartanburg County (~4 hr typical) — against ~2.5 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve South Carolina?
Electric utilities we track in South Carolina include Duke Energy Carolinas, Dominion Energy South Carolina, SC Electric Cooperatives, Santee Cooper and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.