Marion County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Marion County, Florida had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.80 times the US outage time per person and 0.92 times the Florida rate. It ranks 34 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

227 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 177,207 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 227.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	328,164	204	0
2016	901,370	206	3
2017	12,348,768	225	5
2018	358,095	243	1
2019	555,452	248	2
2020	629,152	253	4
2021	260,957	235	1
2022	1,126,770	268	7
2023	502,544	293	6

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	227.0	177,207	11,896,300
Oct 7, 2016	33.0	21,850	421,961
Nov 10, 2022	36.0	23,000	269,201
Sep 28, 2022	48.8	12,552	200,529
Sep 2, 2016	60.0	14,779	171,012

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.