When will the power be back in Forest Acres, SC?
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Forest Acres is a city of about 10,438 residents in Richland County.
Dominion Energy South Carolina has reported outages for Forest Acres by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-27) — so when Forest Acres is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around Forest Acres: the closest other places we track are Columbia, about 4 miles to the east; Cayce, about 7 miles to the southwest; West Columbia, about 8 miles to the west; and Irmo, about 14 miles to the west. Also nearby: Lexington (15 mi W); Sumter (34 mi E); Orangeburg (38 mi S); Newberry (40 mi NW); Aiken (55 mi SW); Rock Hill (63 mi N); Waxhaw, NC (64 mi N); and North Augusta (67 mi SW).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Fort Mill (67 mi); northeast toward Laurinburg, NC (99 mi); east toward Florence (68 mi); southeast toward Moncks Corner (81 mi); south toward Beaufort (110 mi); southwest toward Augusta, GA (78 mi); west toward Greenwood (68 mi); and northwest toward Gaffney (82 mi).
Who serves Forest Acres?
We track live outage data from Dominion Energy South Carolina, SC Electric Cooperatives and Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative ↗ in Richland County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. For the parent company's combined picture, see Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.
County context: across all of Richland County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 3 hr. The full record for Richland County
Common questions
Does this page show Forest Acres specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Forest Acres we have the city-level view: Dominion Energy South Carolina has published outages for Forest Acres under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-27. When Forest Acres is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Richland County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Forest Acres.
