Suwannee County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Suwannee County, Florida had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.43 times the US outage time per person and 2.25 times the Florida rate. It ranks 11 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

247 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 85% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2023, reached 24,384 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 247.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Florida counties

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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	101,322	82	3
2016	99,652	76	3
2017	1,495,953	77	3
2018	163,662	122	2
2019	65,449	73	1
2020	64,706	76	2
2021	83,373	76	1
2022	63,803	66	1
2023	2,497,319	123	3

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
Aug 30, 2023	247.0	24,384	2,420,484
Sep 10, 2017	193.2	36,801	1,413,675
Jan 3, 2018	11.8	8,756	48,044
Apr 19, 2019	24.5	3,983	37,568
Sep 2, 2016	30.5	4,437	33,959

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.