Escambia County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Escambia County, Florida had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.95 times the US outage time per person and 0.99 times the Florida rate. It ranks 32 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

187 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 86% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2020, reached 156,882 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 186.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Florida counties

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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	220,041	154	1
2016	430,358	148	3
2017	332,669	190	3
2018	354,683	179	1
2019	189,888	178	2
2020	11,859,906	161	3
2021	284,937	154	2
2022	145,290	171	2
2023	401,699	172	3

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	186.8	156,882	11,479,015
Oct 28, 2020	39.5	22,143	216,427
Jun 16, 2023	44.0	24,650	209,730
Apr 10, 2021	19.2	24,289	140,315
Feb 15, 2016	21.0	18,448	140,107

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.