Putnam County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Putnam County, Florida had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.81 times the US outage time per person and 1.43 times the Florida rate. It ranks 23 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

202 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 85% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 55,456 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 202.5 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	50,650	61	0
2016	1,019,658	61	4
2017	2,832,041	67	1
2018	79,755	79	1
2019	113,936	90	1
2020	103,404	85	2
2021	60,874	67	0
2022	419,072	103	3
2023	106,020	73	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 10, 2017	202.5	55,456	2,763,040
Oct 7, 2016	32.8	27,135	577,608
Oct 8, 2016	72.0	16,002	377,422
Sep 29, 2022	45.8	13,293	235,726
Nov 10, 2022	35.0	8,083	94,072

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.