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Who serves Richland County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy South Carolina, SC Electric Cooperatives and Mid-Carolina 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 — Richland County, SC
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 1,366 customers, restored in ~2.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 38 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 24, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Richland County, SC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,376 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
31 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~106,649 customers out in September 2024, restored after about 5.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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.
Cities we track in Richland County
Communities in Richland County include Columbia, Irmo, Forest Acres, Blythewood, Arcadia Lakes, Eastover, Arthurtown and Camp Ground. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
