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2015 Palm Beach County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Palm Beach County, FL went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Florida average 1.6 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 1065th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Palm Beach County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 22, 2015 03:45 | March 29, 2015 05:15 | 7d 1h | 19,108 | 51K |
| 2 | August 5, 2015 11:15 | August 15, 2015 05:45 | 9d 18h | 12,989 | 82K |
| 3 | June 28, 2015 10:30 | June 29, 2015 09:00 | 22h 30m | 11,653 | 10K |
| 4 | November 12, 2015 09:15 | November 18, 2015 15:00 | 6d 5h | 11,309 | 30K |
| 5 | April 19, 2015 10:45 | April 21, 2015 18:15 | 2d 7h | 10,711 | 17K |
| 6 | June 29, 2015 11:00 | July 7, 2015 01:45 | 7d 14h | 10,031 | 62K |
| 7 | October 15, 2015 09:45 | October 21, 2015 07:15 | 5d 21h | 8,689 | 32K |
| 8 | January 4, 2015 11:45 | January 6, 2015 23:00 | 2d 11h | 7,971 | 14K |
| 9 | September 27, 2015 11:45 | October 2, 2015 09:15 | 4d 21h | 7,781 | 18K |
| 10 | February 15, 2015 12:30 | February 17, 2015 04:15 | 1d 15h | 7,734 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 138 reached 100+ customers, 84 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Palm Beach County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2015 | 65 min | 0.82 | 62 min | 0.79 |
| City of Lake Worth Beach - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Florida's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 539,728 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Palm Beach County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Palm Beach County, FL annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/florida/palm-beach-county