Charlotte County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Charlotte County, Florida had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.23 times the US outage time per person and 2.66 times the Florida rate. It ranks 6 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

258 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Dechardest months

September and December made up 95% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 28, 2022, reached 125,744 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 258.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	110,572	165	0
2016	257,335	176	3
2017	6,070,416	160	5
2018	168,757	153	2
2019	159,702	159	0
2020	173,954	169	1
2021	366,131	153	2
2022	16,970,601	176	1
2023	147,059	145	2

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 28, 2022	258.0	125,744	16,800,117
Sep 11, 2017	65.0	131,740	2,789,845
Sep 14, 2017	134.5	33,650	1,814,175
Sep 11, 2017	12.0	90,470	817,518
Sep 11, 2017	4.0	136,740	289,885

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.