When will the power be back in Darlington County, SC?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Darlington County, SC right now.
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Elsewhere in South Carolina: 589 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
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Who serves Darlington County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas and SC Electric Cooperatives, 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 Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Darlington County, SC
Last significant outage: Sep 11, 2026 — peaked at 1,023 customers, restored in ~7.5 hr (weather alert).
Across the 4 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 10, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Darlington County, SC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
385 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~20,197 customers out in October 2016, restored after about 5.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.
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 covered
Communities in Darlington County include Hartsville, Lamar, Society Hill, Dovesville, Lake Swamp, Lydia, North Hartsville and Pine Ridge. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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