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Power outage history

Palm Beach County Florida

2.7hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

61st most of 67 in Florida 58% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 10, 2017 100% of customers out · 90% back in 5.5 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 2.7h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 0.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 32hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 8.1days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 88% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2024 4.3 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 539,728 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Palm Beach's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Palm Beach, hours without power per customer

Palm BeachUS median countyFlorida average

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	539,728	100%	8.1 d	5.5 d	40M
Oct 6, 2016	Hurricane Matthew	84,378	16%	45 h	32 h	1.4M
Oct 9, 2024	Hurricane Milton	78,946	15%	2.1 d	26 h	1.1M
Sep 28, 2022	Hurricane Ian	19,520	4%	40 h	22 h	412k
Nov 16, 2023	Windstorm	30,520	6%	16 h	15 h	319k
Nov 8, 2020	Hurricane Eta	16,020	3%	18 h	22 h	144k
Apr 11, 2021	Thunderstorms	26,033	5%	7.5 h	9.5 h	106k
Nov 9, 2022	Hurricane Nicole	12,110	2%	7.0 h	17 h	59k
Jan 23, 2017	Tornadoes	16,215	3%	3.2 h	3.8 h	38k
Apr 26, 2020	Thunderstorms	23,411	4%	2.0 h	4.8 h	24k
Aug 13, 2015	Tornadoes	12,989	2%	2.2 h	4.2 h	22k
Nov 17, 2023	No storm report	20,591	4%	1.5 h	30 min	21k
Sep 26, 2024	Tropical storm	9,351	2%	3.0 h	14 h	21k
Dec 17, 2023	No storm report	8,913	2%	3.5 h	13 h	19k
Sep 26, 2024	Tropical storm	10,713	2%	2.5 h	8.5 h	18k
May 21, 2016	No storm report	16,071	3%	1.2 h	48 min	17k
Jul 14, 2025	Wildfire	7,788	1%	2.5 h	6.2 h	17k
Jul 17, 2025	No storm report	12,589	2%	1.5 h	1.5 h	16k
Jun 24, 2024	No storm report	18,700	3%	1.0 h	48 min	15k
Jun 29, 2015	Thunderstorms	10,031	2%	1.8 h	3.0 h	15k
Dec 12, 2019	No storm report	11,078	2%	1.5 h	48 min	15k
Nov 16, 2020	No storm report	12,843	2%	1.2 h	30 min	15k
Sep 16, 2016	No storm report	19,962	4%	48 min	30 min	14k
Jul 13, 2025	Wildfire	6,247	1%	2.2 h	13 h	13k
Oct 24, 2017	No storm report	19,740	4%	1.0 h	1.0 h	13k
Dec 13, 2021	No storm report	19,672	4%	1.0 h	1.0 h	13k
Oct 14, 2024	No storm report	16,675	3%	2.8 h	1.0 h	13k
Jun 8, 2019	Thunderstorms	10,323	2%	1.8 h	5.5 h	12k
Mar 27, 2015	Thunderstorms	19,108	4%	1.2 h	3.2 h	12k
May 23, 2020	No storm report	11,205	2%	1.2 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 Palm Beach from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Tropical storm 67%
Windstorm 12%
No storm on record 12%
Thunderstorms 7.1%
Wildfire 1.1%
Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Palm Beach

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 Lake Worth Beach	Municipal	41	40	0.98	12.3	25k

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

Okeechobee 7.6 h
Hendry 6.1 h
Glades 5.1 h
Martin 2.8 h
Palm Beach (this county) 2.7 h
Broward 1.4 h

Across Florida

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Florida 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 539,728 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 →