Power outage history
Miami-Dade County Florida
3.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
58th most of 67 in Florida 52% below 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 Miami-Dade's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Miami-Dade, 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 9, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 951,391 | 100% | 10.5 d | 6.8 d | 81M |
| Nov 16, 2023 | Windstorm | 68,625 | 7% | 24 h | 22 h | 804k |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 35,057 | 4% | 20 h | 22 h | 433k |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Hurricane Eta | 20,115 | 2% | 16 h | 21 h | 201k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Tropical storm | 20,232 | 2% | 9.5 h | 21 h | 105k |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 16,947 | 2% | 7.8 h | 17 h | 95k |
| Dec 21, 2018 | Windstorm | 26,537 | 3% | 4.8 h | 9.5 h | 88k |
| May 6, 2025 | No storm report | 13,239 | 1% | 5.5 h | 12 min | 72k |
| Jun 29, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 27,255 | 3% | 5.2 h | 9.0 h | 69k |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 17,781 | 2% | 4.5 h | 6.5 h | 67k |
| Jun 18, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 23,043 | 2% | 3.8 h | 6.8 h | 57k |
| Feb 16, 2016 | Tornadoes | 23,488 | 2% | 4.0 h | 11 h | 45k |
| Apr 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 21,046 | 2% | 2.8 h | 7.0 h | 40k |
| May 26, 2020 | Flooding | 16,926 | 2% | 3.0 h | 8.8 h | 39k |
| May 5, 2019 | Flooding | 15,895 | 2% | 3.0 h | 7.0 h | 35k |
| Nov 8, 2020 | Hurricane Eta | 14,622 | 2% | 3.0 h | 14 h | 30k |
| Jan 23, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 18,242 | 2% | 1.8 h | 14 h | 25k |
| Nov 16, 2024 | No storm report | 19,727 | 2% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 19k |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Flooding | 13,016 | 1% | 1.8 h | 10 h | 19k |
| Mar 30, 2016 | No storm report | 14,617 | 2% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 18k |
| May 15, 2025 | No storm report | 11,022 | 1% | 1.5 h | 12 min | 17k |
| Sep 17, 2016 | No storm report | 13,883 | 1% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 16k |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 15,159 | 2% | 1.0 h | 1.2 h | 14k |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 12,725 | 1% | 1.8 h | 14 h | 13k |
| Jul 14, 2021 | No storm report | 17,400 | 2% | 48 min | 12 min | 13k |
| May 10, 2016 | No storm report | 18,057 | 2% | 48 min | 3.0 h | 13k |
| Feb 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 12,900 | 1% | 1.0 h | 7.2 h | 13k |
| May 6, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 13,368 | 1% | 1.0 h | 7.8 h | 11k |
| Sep 5, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 13,231 | 1% | 1.0 h | 7.5 h | 11k |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Flooding | 11,686 | 1% | 1.0 h | 1.2 h | 11k |
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 Miami-Dade from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Windstorm 43%
- Tropical storm 38%
- No storm on record 9.2%
- Flooding 5.7%
- Thunderstorms 4.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Miami-Dade
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 |
| City of Homestead | Municipal | 83 | 83 | 0.79 | 11.4 | 24k |
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.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
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 951,391 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 →