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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy South Carolina and Berkeley Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Charleston County, SC
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 1,334 customers, restored in ~4.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 37 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 29, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Charleston County, SC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,777 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 18 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the South Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~137,536 customers out in September 2019, restored after about 3.4 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities in Charleston County include North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, James Island, Hollywood, Isle of Palms, Ravenel, Seabrook Island and Folly Beach. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Charleston County, SC?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Charleston include Dominion Energy South Carolina and Berkeley Electric Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
