Lake County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.28 times the US outage time per person and 0.65 times the Florida rate. It ranks 47 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

227 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 10, 2017, reached 144,324 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 227.2 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.

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	83,800	130	0
2016	342,238	92	2
2017	9,366,846	140	1
2018	218,226	155	0
2019	278,975	187	1
2020	197,862	224	0
2021	232,040	206	0
2022	1,466,976	199	2
2023	277,512	163	1

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	227.2	144,324	9,201,122
Sep 28, 2022	99.5	35,937	1,103,806
Oct 7, 2016	36.5	9,806	197,612
Nov 10, 2022	33.8	9,675	96,506
Oct 29, 2019	8.5	8,639	49,804

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.