Highlands County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Highlands County, Florida had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.35 times the US outage time per person and 2.72 times the Florida rate. It ranks 5 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

231 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aprhardest months

September and April made up 95% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 52,875 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 231.0 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.

2.5M

7.5M

10M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	83,499	91	1
2016	78,246	97	0
2017	8,569,236	83	1
2018	93,396	89	1
2019	120,900	109	0
2020	82,363	83	0
2021	65,528	82	0
2022	3,721,374	89	1
2023	100,834	82	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 10, 2017	231.0	52,875	8,458,503
Sep 28, 2022	135.8	50,689	3,616,135
Sep 20, 2017	26.0	949	11,581
Nov 21, 2015	8.8	1,809	10,776
Feb 26, 2019	6.5	4,677	9,530

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.