Okeechobee County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Okeechobee County, Florida had 9 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.

1.0major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 89% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 38,400 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 65.0 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

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	47,454	68	0
2016	107,064	91	1
2017	1,644,488	50	5
2018	19,185	31	0
2019	23,840	36	0
2020	45,118	58	0
2021	21,975	30	0
2022	512,476	45	3
2023	26,239	34	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 11, 2017	65.0	38,400	820,792
Sep 14, 2017	81.8	12,920	420,505
Sep 29, 2022	50.8	17,430	360,740
Sep 11, 2017	12.0	29,330	220,950
Sep 29, 2022	9.0	17,430	99,155

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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