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2016 Palm Beach County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Palm Beach County, FL went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 2.8M customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 647th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Palm Beach County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 30, 2016 11:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 8d 6h | 84,378 | 1.4M |
| 2 | August 29, 2016 09:15 | September 26, 2016 09:30 | 28d | 19,962 | 125K |
| 3 | May 14, 2016 10:30 | May 24, 2016 05:00 | 9d 18h | 16,071 | 66K |
| 4 | January 14, 2016 12:00 | January 21, 2016 12:30 | 7d | 13,297 | 57K |
| 5 | August 2, 2016 17:30 | August 11, 2016 14:15 | 8d 20h | 13,287 | 56K |
| 6 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 25, 2016 08:00 | 1d 21h | 13,093 | 10K |
| 7 | October 26, 2016 12:15 | November 3, 2016 08:30 | 7d 20h | 11,429 | 55K |
| 8 | June 5, 2016 10:45 | June 20, 2016 23:15 | 15d 12h | 10,879 | 90K |
| 9 | July 1, 2016 06:45 | July 14, 2016 08:15 | 13d 1h | 10,697 | 70K |
| 10 | September 26, 2016 10:30 | September 27, 2016 03:45 | 17h 15m | 9,408 | 3,262 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 108 reached 100+ customers, 72 reached 1,000+ customers, 9 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 6.9 hrs | 1.09 | 62 min | 0.74 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/florida/palm-beach-county