Power Out Map
– 0% of Broward out 0 customers out in Florida

Power outage history

Broward County Florida

1.4hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

67th most of 67 in Florida 79% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 10, 2017 100% of customers out · 90% back in 5.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.4h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5.0days Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.8days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 88% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 1.7 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 1,298,256 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Broward's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 1.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Broward, hours without power per customer

BrowardUS median countyFlorida average
0 5 10 15 20 1.3 ’15 1.5 ’16 45 ’17 1.3 ’18 1.2 ’19 1.5 ’20 1.1 ’21 1.4 ’22 1.7 ’23 1.2 ’24 1.7 ’25 FL 7.8 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 9, 2017 Hurricane Irma 1,298,256 100% 8.8 d 5.0 d 56M
Nov 16, 2023 Windstorm 28,529 2% 11 h 22 h 220k
Nov 8, 2020 Hurricane Eta 24,179 2% 6.5 h 17 h 119k
Feb 16, 2016 Thunderstorms 26,446 2% 3.0 h 7.0 h 46k
Sep 28, 2022 Hurricane Ian 19,414 2% 4.0 h 16 h 38k
Apr 10, 2018 Tornadoes 20,337 2% 1.5 h 4.8 h 28k
Oct 24, 2020 Flooding 14,301 1% 1.0 h 1.2 h 14k
Aug 31, 2023 No storm report 18,672 1% 1.0 h 48 min 13k
Jul 19, 2023 No storm report 17,044 1% 48 min 48 min 12k
Sep 28, 2022 Hurricane Ian 15,967 1% 1.5 h 13 h 11k
Aug 2, 2016 No storm report 18,235 1% 30 min 48 min 9.1k
Sep 22, 2022 No storm report 19,844 2% 30 min 1.2 h 8.3k

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Broward from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Windstorm 44%
  • Tropical storm 34%
  • No storm on record 12%
  • Tornadoes 5.6%
  • Flooding 2.7%
  • Thunderstorms 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Broward

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Florida territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Florida Power & Light Co Investor Owned 47 45 0.46 14.6 5.3M
Lee County Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 58 58 0.88 14.2 237k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Florida

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 1,298,256 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →