Martin County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Martin County, Florida had 16 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.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 89% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 139,740 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 65.0 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

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	62,085	90	0
2016	1,459,931	130	3
2017	4,718,863	96	4
2018	82,426	89	0
2019	110,627	106	1
2020	106,614	104	1
2021	108,318	63	1
2022	408,283	108	4
2023	84,692	116	2

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 11, 2017	65.0	139,740	2,719,250
Oct 6, 2016	47.5	50,054	1,106,240
Sep 11, 2017	12.0	131,170	900,790
Sep 14, 2017	99.5	18,800	398,562
Sep 11, 2017	4.0	143,620	301,052

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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