Hurricane Isaias leaves 149,345 Florida customers without power
Power outages affected 212,009 customers across several U.S. states on Monday, including 149,345 in Florida after Hurricane Isaias.
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what happened
Newsmetry API, citing PowerOutage.us, reported that more than 149,000 Florida homes and businesses had lost electricity on Monday after Hurricane Isaias crossed the U.S. Southeast. The storm reached land near Destin, Florida, on Friday as a Category 2 hurricane and later weakened into a post-tropical cyclone. It produced destructive winds, intense rain, flash floods and tornado threats, and four people died.
Florida Power & Light accounted for 112,021 of the state’s outages. Escambia County recorded the largest number, at 67,573 customers, followed by Santa Rosa County with 47,443 and Walton County with 17,218. PowerOutage.us counted 212,009 outages overall: 149,345 in Florida, 21,544 in Alabama, 18,861 in California, 9,108 in Pennsylvania, 4,745 in North Carolina, 3,040 in South Carolina, 2,763 in Virginia and 2,603 in Texas.
why it matters
The outage figures underscore the storm’s disruption to power networks across the U.S. Southeast, keeping utility restoration efforts and regional infrastructure in focus for markets.
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- Isaias leaves more than 149,000 Florida customers without power — Newsmetry API, 12 October 2026 at 14:24 UTC
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