Monroe County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.60 times the US outage time per person and 1.83 times the Florida rate. It ranks 17 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

225 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Dechardest months

September and December made up 85% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 14, 2017, reached 36,080 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 225.2 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	39,206	26	0
2016	10,326	30	0
2017	5,152,918	63	4
2018	205,887	98	2
2019	176,614	90	2
2020	98,224	81	0
2021	204,320	77	0
2022	199,925	67	1
2023	329,226	118	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 14, 2017	225.2	36,080	3,135,710
Sep 9, 2017	46.8	51,336	1,137,510
Sep 13, 2017	20.0	22,639	428,696
Sep 24, 2017	164.2	6,415	240,670
Dec 14, 2023	3.5	46,249	131,056

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.