Power outage history
Indian River County Florida
9.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
34th most of 67 in Florida 1.5× 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 Indian River's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 39 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Indian River, 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 | 62,070 | 100% | 7.3 d | 3.4 d | 3.4M |
| Oct 9, 2024 | Hurricane Milton | 26,423 | 43% | 5.6 d | 12 min | 2.2M |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 38,514 | 62% | 41 h | 40 h | 974k |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 27,316 | 44% | 2.9 d | 2.0 d | 778k |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 15,103 | 24% | 2.8 d | 2.1 d | 378k |
| Nov 9, 2022 | Hurricane Nicole | 18,748 | 30% | 29 h | 14 h | 185k |
| Sep 3, 2019 | Hurricane Dorian | 4,596 | 7% | 13 h | 10 h | 14k |
| May 17, 2025 | No storm report | 13,646 | 22% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 14k |
| Jul 15, 2022 | No storm report | 11,752 | 19% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 12k |
| Jan 15, 2016 | No storm report | 4,538 | 7% | 4.8 h | 4.5 h | 12k |
| Jan 30, 2022 | No storm report | 7,822 | 13% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Tropical storm | 1,618 | 3% | 11 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 28, 2025 | No storm report | 2,452 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 10k |
| Jul 2, 2018 | No storm report | 7,790 | 13% | 1.5 h | 30 min | 10.0k |
| May 17, 2016 | Tornadoes | 2,518 | 4% | 11 h | – | 8.6k |
| May 26, 2024 | No storm report | 3,894 | 6% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 8.3k |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,525 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 7.4k |
| Jun 3, 2022 | No storm report | 9,289 | 15% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 7.3k |
| Nov 8, 2024 | No storm report | 4,042 | 7% | 3.0 h | 3.2 h | 6.6k |
| Apr 11, 2024 | No storm report | 3,643 | 6% | 6.8 h | 6.8 h | 6.5k |
| Jul 25, 2024 | No storm report | 634 | 1% | 10 h | – | 6.3k |
| Sep 14, 2022 | No storm report | 4,654 | 8% | 2.8 h | 1.5 h | 6.2k |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 11,738 | 19% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 5.9k |
| Jul 10, 2025 | No storm report | 2,825 | 5% | 3.0 h | – | 5.6k |
| Aug 8, 2019 | No storm report | 2,402 | 4% | 2.2 h | – | 5.3k |
| Mar 25, 2025 | No storm report | 695 | 1% | 8.0 h | – | 4.9k |
| Jul 31, 2023 | No storm report | 1,440 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 4.7k |
| Apr 5, 2016 | No storm report | 3,096 | 5% | 2.2 h | – | 4.7k |
| Sep 30, 2024 | No storm report | 1,747 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 4.5k |
| Jan 20, 2019 | No storm report | 3,030 | 5% | 1.8 h | – | 4.4k |
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 Indian River from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 87%
- No storm on record 13%
- Thunderstorms 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Indian River
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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 155 | 155 | 1.62 | 12.8 | 62k |
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
- Indian River (this county) 9.6 h
- Okeechobee 7.6 h
- Brevard 4.7 h
- St. Lucie 2.7 h
- Osceola 2.5 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 62,070 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 →