Gulf County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Gulf County, Florida had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

156 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 11,084 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 156.0 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

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	8,711	8	0
2016	16,866	11	1
2017	53,602	43	2
2018	1,237,323	49	5
2019	55,490	45	0
2020	59,419	42	1
2021	64,365	43	1
2022	17,066	16	0
2023	134,880	45	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
Oct 12, 2018	156.0	11,084	777,858
Oct 10, 2018	41.0	13,252	262,318
Oct 24, 2018	134.5	1,502	109,600
Aug 26, 2023	13.5	1,919	25,031
Oct 19, 2023	4.5	4,532	20,387

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

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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.
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