Franklin County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Franklin County, Florida had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

112 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 84% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 19,334 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 111.5 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	21,473	20	0
2016	60,562	24	2
2017	166,204	20	1
2018	1,153,989	27	2
2019	58,563	12	1
2020	16,148	20	0
2021	61,307	16	1
2022	11,186	16	0
2023	27,390	24	1

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 12, 2018	111.5	19,334	734,952
Oct 10, 2018	39.2	20,616	395,343
Sep 11, 2017	76.5	1,971	141,322
Nov 1, 2019	7.5	8,085	42,079
Aug 16, 2021	26.8	4,026	40,968

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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.
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