Orange County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Orange County, Florida had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.65 times the Florida rate. It ranks 48 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

247 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 87% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 331,670 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 246.8 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	522,685	373	0
2016	1,702,567	433	1
2017	27,653,343	452	1
2018	642,976	415	0
2019	684,358	417	0
2020	652,559	465	0
2021	662,956	497	0
2022	9,801,172	471	2
2023	653,804	380	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	246.8	331,670	26,978,087
Sep 28, 2022	148.0	229,025	8,452,802
Oct 7, 2016	39.5	60,016	1,004,762
Nov 10, 2022	40.5	62,314	639,339
Oct 8, 2016	29.2	7,197	104,971

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.