Santa Rosa County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Santa Rosa County, Florida had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 0.48 times the Florida rate. It ranks 54 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

140 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Mayhardest months

September and May made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2020, reached 60,369 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 140.0 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	82,371	58	0
2016	97,483	69	1
2017	112,103	78	2
2018	127,486	125	1
2019	75,142	109	0
2020	3,199,323	110	2
2021	109,756	107	2
2022	70,442	109	0
2023	471,395	104	4

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 15, 2020	140.0	60,369	3,047,208
May 8, 2023	97.8	2,947	243,529
Oct 29, 2020	24.0	7,176	65,159
Jun 18, 2023	18.8	8,674	57,466
Jun 16, 2023	26.5	5,541	55,252

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.