Madison County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Madison County, Florida had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.94 times the US outage time per person and 3.02 times the Florida rate. It ranks 1 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

199 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 90% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2023, reached 13,579 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 199.2 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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1.5M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	29,107	33	0
2016	312,780	42	1
2017	517,278	37	2
2018	41,877	25	1
2019	11,532	23	0
2020	44,120	50	1
2021	31,817	35	1
2022	32,280	37	1
2023	1,379,619	60	4

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
Aug 30, 2023	199.2	13,579	1,330,806
Sep 11, 2017	108.5	8,088	484,942
Sep 2, 2016	92.0	8,146	294,518
Oct 10, 2018	27.5	2,501	27,528
Jan 22, 2017	15.8	3,721	19,564

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.