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2018 Palm Beach County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Palm Beach County, FL went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1775th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Palm Beach County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 6, 2018 08:30 | April 18, 2018 09:15 | 12d | 13,310 | 56K |
| 2 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | August 16, 2018 09:15 | 28d 9h | 12,122 | 125K |
| 3 | January 2, 2018 03:15 | January 13, 2018 09:00 | 11d 5h | 11,241 | 71K |
| 4 | October 7, 2018 10:45 | October 12, 2018 07:15 | 4d 20h | 10,386 | 19K |
| 5 | September 12, 2018 09:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 2d 12h | 8,983 | 30K |
| 6 | April 23, 2018 05:45 | April 26, 2018 08:45 | 3d 3h | 7,724 | 20K |
| 7 | December 4, 2018 10:15 | December 10, 2018 07:30 | 5d 21h | 6,299 | 11K |
| 8 | December 20, 2018 11:30 | December 25, 2018 04:00 | 4d 16h | 5,935 | 30K |
| 9 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | July 12, 2018 07:00 | 47d 20h | 5,741 | 227K |
| 10 | February 2, 2018 22:15 | February 9, 2018 11:30 | 6d 13h | 5,685 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 96 reached 100+ customers, 70 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 60 min | 0.71 | 55 min | 0.65 |
| 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 97% of Florida's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/florida/palm-beach-county