Indian River County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Indian River County, Florida had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.78 times the US outage time per person and 0.91 times the Florida rate. It ranks 35 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

213 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 87% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 9, 2017, reached 120,679 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 213.0 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	51,084	84	0
2016	1,448,873	89	4
2017	3,591,149	55	1
2018	51,508	61	0
2019	143,965	153	2
2020	141,427	159	2
2021	93,892	139	1
2022	1,108,876	137	6
2023	118,465	123	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 9, 2017	213.0	120,679	3,558,484
Oct 6, 2016	45.2	38,514	976,554
Sep 29, 2022	50.8	27,316	633,344
Oct 8, 2016	73.2	15,103	380,657
Nov 9, 2022	34.2	18,748	188,530

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.