Lafayette County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Lafayette County, Florida had 10 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.

1.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

203 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 87% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2023, reached 4,916 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 203.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	15,041	28	1
2016	27,971	13	1
2017	421,040	46	3
2018	43,029	44	2
2019	6,774	14	0
2020	11,684	19	1
2021	17,887	8	1
2022	14,610	14	0
2023	518,288	19	1

When outages hit

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 30, 2023	203.0	4,916	508,273
Sep 11, 2017	158.5	7,531	383,652
Sep 2, 2016	33.8	716	16,103
Oct 10, 2018	23.0	2,527	15,874
Jan 23, 2017	14.8	1,412	11,558

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.
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