Polk County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Polk County, Florida had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.72 times the Florida rate. It ranks 44 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

266 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aprhardest months

September and April made up 87% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 10, 2017, reached 130,427 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 266.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	219,086	208	0
2016	406,716	252	0
2017	13,406,057	233	1
2018	277,900	253	0
2019	812,912	418	1
2020	431,799	381	0
2021	544,608	359	1
2022	9,867,398	386	1
2023	700,191	392	2

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	266.0	130,427	13,132,575
Sep 28, 2022	161.5	203,470	9,248,277
Oct 19, 2019	45.8	9,709	219,444
Apr 11, 2021	42.5	14,350	138,707
Apr 12, 2023	11.8	7,365	42,118

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.