City of Homestead, FL
Power reliability at City of Homestead
Power from City of Homestead went out 0.8 times last year across its Florida territory, 83 minutes in total - a little steadier than most of the country. That is 18% more outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
How long a single City of Homestead outage runs
At an average of 1.7 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 27,002 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - City of Homestead's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
How City of Homestead's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Homestead files with federal regulators every year - serving 27,002 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Florida as a whole, across every utility that filed: Florida's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.