Gadsden County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gadsden County, Florida had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.23 times the US outage time per person and 2.15 times the Florida rate. It ranks 12 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

182 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 88% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 15,112 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 182.0 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	13,378	16	0
2016	429,813	35	1
2017	302,404	52	3
2018	2,951,348	47	3
2019	42,694	45	0
2020	81,343	78	0
2021	63,060	56	1
2022	72,320	55	0
2023	158,026	75	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
Oct 10, 2018	182.0	15,112	2,219,054
Oct 18, 2018	125.2	8,667	619,471
Sep 2, 2016	108.2	11,463	400,883
Sep 12, 2017	38.2	7,083	145,469
Sep 11, 2017	12.0	8,452	88,598

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.