Leon County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Leon County, Florida had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.31 times the US outage time per person and 1.18 times the Florida rate. It ranks 27 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

187 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 135,215 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 187.2 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.

2.5M

7.5M

10M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	23,863	17	0
2016	1,236,396	81	1
2017	1,266,386	221	1
2018	9,286,430	334	5
2019	456,000	338	3
2020	528,996	330	2
2021	388,752	305	3
2022	489,017	322	3
2023	1,620,503	325	7

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	187.2	135,215	8,786,643
Sep 2, 2016	109.8	22,364	1,132,690
Sep 11, 2017	79.5	53,031	1,020,663
Aug 30, 2023	60.8	52,022	742,925
Jun 15, 2023	17.8	32,056	256,757

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.