Pasco County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pasco County, Florida had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.91 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Florida rate. It ranks 55 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

198 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Julhardest months

September and July made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 101,759 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 197.8 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.

2.5M

7.5M

10M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	312,020	246	0
2016	623,354	270	1
2017	9,107,358	200	1
2018	393,804	294	1
2019	411,828	244	1
2020	477,414	264	2
2021	369,994	253	1
2022	1,159,652	310	2
2023	345,802	185	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 10, 2017	197.8	101,759	8,848,291
Sep 28, 2022	54.0	32,771	665,526
Sep 1, 2016	73.8	9,328	227,123
Nov 12, 2020	15.0	9,162	75,545
Aug 30, 2023	21.2	6,026	70,290

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.