Alachua County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Alachua County, Florida had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.01 times the US outage time per person and 0.51 times the Florida rate. It ranks 51 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

218 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 67,722 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 218.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	183,392	149	2
2016	846,026	131	7
2017	3,396,145	140	2
2018	207,778	168	2
2019	255,842	123	1
2020	413,462	202	2
2021	202,574	159	1
2022	454,253	176	3
2023	527,432	195	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 10, 2017	218.0	67,722	3,194,219
Sep 2, 2016	64.8	14,974	331,968
Aug 30, 2023	56.5	15,349	278,811
Apr 19, 2019	47.0	12,350	122,484
Nov 10, 2022	33.2	11,989	118,282

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.