Hendry County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hendry County, Florida had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.21 times the US outage time per person and 1.12 times the Florida rate. It ranks 31 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

158 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Mayhardest months

September and May made up 91% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 29, 2022, reached 6,800 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 157.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Florida counties

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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	31,896	27	0
2016	28,576	23	0
2017	1,314,895	29	4
2018	37,756	29	1
2019	36,946	39	0
2020	27,160	33	0
2021	28,552	31	0
2022	695,336	29	2
2023	37,774	34	0

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 29, 2022	157.8	6,800	566,101
Sep 14, 2017	154.5	6,650	535,692
Sep 11, 2017	65.0	19,400	526,418
Sep 11, 2017	12.0	19,400	118,825
Sep 28, 2022	15.2	9,511	106,701

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.