Washington County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Florida had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.62 times the US outage time per person and 1.84 times the Florida rate. It ranks 16 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

181 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 12,329 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 181.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	35,560	39	0
2016	81,555	54	0
2017	52,048	35	0
2018	1,488,742	64	3
2019	38,994	24	0
2020	122,478	53	4
2021	118,775	44	1
2022	72,752	52	1
2023	98,788	61	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
Oct 10, 2018	181.0	12,329	1,222,407
Oct 23, 2018	165.8	1,589	94,325
Oct 21, 2018	55.0	1,844	89,174
Aug 16, 2021	26.0	6,056	49,004
Apr 23, 2020	19.0	3,408	37,882

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.