Columbia County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Columbia County, Florida had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.31 times the US outage time per person and 1.18 times the Florida rate. It ranks 27 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

172 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 71% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 44,341 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 172.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	74,048	70	0
2016	422,108	88	4
2017	1,401,131	99	4
2018	143,951	96	2
2019	113,036	85	1
2020	192,593	98	3
2021	88,864	78	1
2022	207,999	90	5
2023	1,118,561	111	3

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	172.0	44,341	1,191,030
Aug 30, 2023	144.2	30,854	1,004,028
Sep 2, 2016	60.0	12,539	274,353
Feb 8, 2017	45.2	8,117	88,286
Jul 28, 2022	10.2	6,324	57,280

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.