Palm Beach County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Palm Beach County, Florida had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.49 times the US outage time per person and 0.76 times the Florida rate. It ranks 41 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 86% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 1,018,980 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	957,796	901	1
2016	2,396,088	812	1
2017	41,784,044	712	5
2018	806,775	831	0
2019	762,850	770	0
2020	1,304,172	863	2
2021	825,617	759	0
2022	1,500,492	787	1
2023	1,394,168	772	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 11, 2017	65.0	1,018,980	21,201,432
Sep 11, 2017	12.0	1,098,160	6,589,608
Sep 14, 2017	110.5	160,900	5,762,460
Sep 9, 2017	43.2	543,450	4,669,593
Sep 11, 2017	4.0	1,035,380	2,212,282

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.