Volusia County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Volusia County, Florida had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.45 times the US outage time per person and 1.75 times the Florida rate. It ranks 18 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

239 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 94% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 318,854 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 238.8 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	274,488	275	1
2016	12,566,022	305	3
2017	18,094,509	262	1
2018	278,256	288	1
2019	274,307	243	1
2020	428,433	310	1
2021	269,701	276	0
2022	13,247,936	377	3
2023	321,638	303	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 10, 2017	238.8	318,854	17,806,400
Sep 28, 2022	209.8	224,435	12,385,536
Oct 7, 2016	41.0	235,478	6,398,354
Oct 8, 2016	150.5	135,382	5,848,748
Nov 10, 2022	42.8	35,363	482,287

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.