Duval County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Duval County, Florida had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.39 times the US outage time per person and 0.71 times the Florida rate. It ranks 46 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

148 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 84% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 162,216 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 147.8 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	702,535	346	2
2016	12,976,978	476	4
2017	14,844,394	498	8
2018	392,465	364	0
2019	398,766	302	0
2020	562,272	350	0
2021	533,411	376	1
2022	982,296	381	2
2023	915,892	363	1

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
Oct 8, 2016	147.8	162,216	7,584,262
Oct 8, 2016	11.8	454,234	2,490,968
Oct 7, 2016	18.5	234,394	2,094,366
Sep 12, 2017	10.0	324,058	1,591,601
Sep 14, 2017	34.0	119,710	1,393,927

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.