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2017 Palm Beach County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Palm Beach County, FL went without power for an average of 78.0 hours, a total of 42.1M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 67 Florida counties and 26th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Palm Beach County, 2017
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 8, 2017 11:30 | September 20, 2017 02:00 | 11d 14h | 1,098,160 | 41.0M |
| 2 | February 26, 2017 10:00 | February 28, 2017 17:45 | 2d 7h | 42,701 | 19K |
| 3 | September 25, 2017 19:45 | November 1, 2017 04:00 | 36d 8h | 19,740 | 234K |
| 4 | January 21, 2017 10:15 | January 26, 2017 06:00 | 4d 19h | 16,215 | 80K |
| 5 | July 27, 2017 10:45 | July 31, 2017 07:30 | 3d 20h | 13,852 | 27K |
| 6 | March 2, 2017 12:15 | March 7, 2017 11:15 | 4d 23h | 10,392 | 14K |
| 7 | June 2, 2017 11:15 | June 28, 2017 06:00 | 25d 18h | 8,493 | 101K |
| 8 | May 23, 2017 09:00 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 9d 22h | 7,339 | 62K |
| 9 | March 12, 2017 07:00 | March 18, 2017 08:00 | 6d 1h | 6,794 | 29K |
| 10 | August 15, 2017 09:45 | August 20, 2017 00:00 | 4d 14h | 6,562 | 27K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 102 reached 100+ customers, 75 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 66.0 hrs | 2.00 | 59 min | 0.69 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/florida/palm-beach-county