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2023 Palm Beach County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Palm Beach County, FL went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1855th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Palm Beach County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 23, 2023 11:15 | December 22, 2023 08:30 | 59d 21h | 34,522 | 695K |
| 2 | February 15, 2023 06:00 | March 6, 2023 06:45 | 19d | 13,715 | 49K |
| 3 | May 23, 2023 11:15 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 19d 1h | 13,309 | 84K |
| 4 | July 7, 2023 18:30 | August 18, 2023 14:15 | 41d 19h | 11,381 | 246K |
| 5 | April 10, 2023 01:15 | May 9, 2023 08:45 | 29d 7h | 11,370 | 143K |
| 6 | January 30, 2023 00:00 | February 1, 2023 11:30 | 2d 11h | 10,541 | 14K |
| 7 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | July 1, 2023 07:00 | 19d 17h | 10,166 | 110K |
| 8 | September 17, 2023 20:15 | October 19, 2023 00:30 | 31d 4h | 8,508 | 127K |
| 9 | March 12, 2023 12:30 | March 22, 2023 03:15 | 9d 14h | 5,894 | 40K |
| 10 | February 1, 2023 12:15 | February 15, 2023 04:45 | 13d 16h | 5,120 | 32K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 35 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 78 min | 0.64 | 50 min | 0.51 |
| 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 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/florida/palm-beach-county