Sumter County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sumter County, Florida had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 0.38 times the Florida rate. It ranks 56 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

187 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 83% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 40,040 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 186.8 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	69,308	39	0
2016	20,297	10	0
2017	1,934,259	39	2
2018	55,428	56	0
2019	49,696	70	0
2020	43,927	71	0
2021	63,044	79	1
2022	237,912	119	2
2023	83,208	85	0

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	186.8	40,040	1,885,945
Sep 28, 2022	25.8	7,475	61,812
Aug 2, 2022	5.2	18,029	35,976
Sep 9, 2015	3.2	12,228	26,058
Nov 10, 2022	13.2	5,599	21,937

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.