Power outage history
Charlotte County Florida
22hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
13th most of 67 in Florida 3.4× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Charlotte's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Charlotte, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 125,744 | 97% | 10.5 d | 13 h | 17M |
| Sep 10, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 129,889 | 100% | 9.0 d | 5.3 d | 5.9M |
| Oct 9, 2024 | Hurricane Milton | 97,120 | 75% | 6.7 d | 11 h | 3.8M |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 21,898 | 17% | 2.1 d | 35 h | 392k |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Windstorm | 29,703 | 23% | 19 h | 13 h | 163k |
| Jan 17, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 10,916 | 8% | 20 h | 18 h | 87k |
| Jun 30, 2016 | No storm report | 2,919 | 2% | 11 h | – | 32k |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 3,390 | 3% | 14 h | – | 28k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | No storm report | 2,626 | 2% | 6.0 h | – | 16k |
| Apr 30, 2021 | No storm report | 17,805 | 14% | 48 min | 30 min | 13k |
| Mar 31, 2018 | No storm report | 5,617 | 4% | 3.8 h | 2.5 h | 13k |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Hurricane Eta | 5,264 | 4% | 7.0 h | 1.8 h | 12k |
| Apr 30, 2023 | Tornadoes | 6,927 | 5% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 11k |
| Jun 9, 2021 | No storm report | 12,304 | 9% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 9.2k |
| Jul 9, 2020 | No storm report | 10,120 | 8% | 48 min | 48 min | 7.6k |
| May 10, 2022 | No storm report | 3,922 | 3% | 2.0 h | – | 7.4k |
| May 30, 2021 | No storm report | 5,929 | 5% | 2.8 h | 1.5 h | 7.4k |
| Aug 25, 2018 | No storm report | 3,769 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 7.3k |
| Aug 25, 2024 | No storm report | 6,260 | 5% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 6.5k |
| May 19, 2017 | No storm report | 5,043 | 4% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 6.4k |
| Oct 15, 2022 | No storm report | 6,015 | 5% | 1.5 h | 48 min | 5.9k |
| Jun 22, 2025 | No storm report | 2,874 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 5.7k |
| Aug 21, 2025 | No storm report | 2,771 | 2% | 1.8 h | – | 4.7k |
| Jul 2, 2018 | No storm report | 4,651 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 4.7k |
| May 26, 2024 | No storm report | 3,710 | 3% | 1.2 h | – | 4.6k |
| Jan 17, 2023 | No storm report | 3,557 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 4.6k |
| Sep 10, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 3,430 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 4.6k |
| Jun 11, 2025 | No storm report | 3,172 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 4.5k |
| Feb 24, 2016 | Tornadoes | 5,145 | 4% | 1.5 h | 8.0 h | 4.5k |
| Oct 5, 2019 | No storm report | 3,705 | 3% | 1.2 h | – | 4.4k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Charlotte from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 97%
- No storm on record 1.8%
- Windstorm 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Charlotte
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Florida territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 47 | 45 | 0.46 | 14.6 | 5.3M |
| Lee County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 58 | 58 | 0.88 | 14.2 | 237k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 129,889 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →