Power outage history
Glades County Florida
5.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
50th most of 67 in Florida 23% below the national median
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 Glades's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Glades, hours without power per customer
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 10, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 4,840 | 76% | 11.4 d | 5.5 d | 293k |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 3,420 | 54% | 6.5 d | 2.9 d | 148k |
| Oct 10, 2024 | Hurricane Milton | 693 | 11% | 3.3 d | 6.8 h | 25k |
| Jan 23, 2016 | No storm report | 516 | 8% | 7.0 h | 18 h | 3.1k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Tropical storm | 122 | 2% | 26 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jun 20, 2021 | No storm report | 763 | 12% | 6.0 h | 6.0 h | 2.5k |
| Aug 22, 2025 | No storm report | 81 | 1% | 30 h | – | 2.4k |
| Jan 10, 2016 | No storm report | 516 | 8% | 4.0 h | 3.5 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 3, 2021 | No storm report | 255 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 1.7k |
| Sep 4, 2017 | No storm report | 510 | 8% | 4.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.7k |
| Sep 30, 2017 | No storm report | 101 | 2% | 16 h | – | 1.4k |
| Dec 29, 2017 | No storm report | 508 | 8% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.4k |
| Jan 27, 2019 | No storm report | 521 | 8% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 1.3k |
| Jan 4, 2018 | No storm report | 508 | 8% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 1.3k |
| Oct 3, 2017 | No storm report | 514 | 8% | 2.2 h | 5.8 h | 1.2k |
| May 24, 2017 | No storm report | 219 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Hurricane Nicole | 149 | 2% | 9.0 h | – | 1.1k |
| Oct 5, 2022 | No storm report | 71 | 1% | 16 h | – | 1.1k |
| Nov 21, 2017 | No storm report | 517 | 8% | 2.0 h | 1.2 h | 1.0k |
| Oct 1, 2017 | No storm report | 511 | 8% | 2.0 h | 4.2 h | 1.0k |
| Jun 6, 2017 | No storm report | 199 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 945 |
| Jan 4, 2020 | No storm report | 137 | 2% | 8.0 h | – | 868 |
| Jan 30, 2020 | No storm report | 113 | 2% | 9.5 h | – | 825 |
| Mar 9, 2022 | No storm report | 172 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 811 |
| Jul 30, 2022 | No storm report | 720 | 11% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 767 |
| Jul 20, 2017 | No storm report | 544 | 9% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 734 |
| May 21, 2020 | No storm report | 193 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 708 |
| Jan 4, 2025 | No storm report | 175 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 700 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | No storm report | 64 | 1% | 11 h | – | 688 |
| Jul 8, 2021 | No storm report | 327 | 5% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 687 |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Glades from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 80%
- No storm on record 19%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Glades
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 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 427 | 383 | 3.24 | 18.3 | 15k |
| City of Moore Haven | FL | – | – | – | – | 8.9k |
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
- Charlotte 22 h
- Highlands 21 h
- Lee 17 h
- Okeechobee 7.6 h
- Hendry 6.1 h
- Glades (this county) 5.1 h
- Martin 2.8 h
- Palm Beach 2.7 h
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 6,357 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 →