FPL Set To Complete Miami-Dade Power Restoration

MIAMI, Fl — Florida Power & Light says it will "essentially" restore power to all Miami-Dade customers by the end of Tuesday. Meanwhile some 123,520 customers were still without power in the state's eight most southern counties as of Monday night, according to a Patch analysis. FPL has set a target of restoring power to all Florida customers by the end of Friday.

"Miami-Dade County is 97 percent restored, Broward County is 99 percent restored and restoration efforts in Northeast Florida from Putnam County north through Nassau County are on track or ahead of schedule," FPL officials said Monday. "In Southwest Florida, power restoration is 85 percent complete or higher in Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, DeSoto, Lee and Glades counties. Hendry County is 75 percent restored and more than 78 percent of customers are restored in Collier County, where Irma made landfall and inflicted the worst damage."

As of Monday night, the power company reported that it had restored power to 2,940,255 customers. FPL has 4.1 million customers in the affected areas of South Florida. (For more hurricane news or local news from Florida, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Miami Patch, and click here to find your local Florida Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Patch will continue to update these totals so bookmark this page and check back to see how your county continues to be affected.

Watch: Hurricane Irma's Destructive Journey By The Numbers

Just prior to the storm making landfall in the Florida Keys on Sept. 10 a total of 193,000 South Florida customers were without power. As of Sept. 11, some 2.4 million South Florida customers were without power. Here is a breakdown of facilities that have had their power restored:

• 112 major hospitals – 100 percent restored
• 44 emergency operations centers – 100 percent restored
• 55 air transportation facilities – 100 percent restored
• 31 seaports and related infrastructure – 100 percent restored
• 21 correctional facilities – 100 percent restored
• 55 active military installations – 100 percent restored
• 22 licensed nursing homes – 100 percent restored
• 12 licensed assisted living facilities – 100 percent restored
• 4 hospice facilities – 100 percent restored
• 12 mission-critical cellular facilities – 100 percent restored
• 4 dialysis centers – 100 percent restored
• 36 critical well fields – 100 percent restored
• 108 water-treatment and sewage-treatment plants – 99 percent restored (1 remaining out)
• 34 shelters – 97 percent restored (1 remaining out)
• 77 police facilities – 99 percent restored (1 remaining out)
• 81 fire stations – 98 percent restored (2 remaining out)
• 67 9-1-1-dispatch centers – 99 percent restored (1 remaining out)

In addition, approximately 400 nursing homes classified as priority critical infrastructure facilities were impacted by Irma, and more than 99 percent have now been restored. More than 2,200 impacted schools classified as priority critical infrastructure facilities have been fully restored as have nearly 1,900 impacted gas stations, FPL said.

FPL said that the restoration effort includes an unprecedented 24,000 workers. All 263 substations that were affected by Hurricane Irma across the state are back on line.

Of the total outages, most were in Miami-Dade County followed by Broward and Palm Beach County, according to the Patch analysis.

FPL said that service was restored to more than 2.7 million customers in the first 48 hours after Hurricane Irma cleared the company's service area with thousands more customers added every hour.

"Compared with Hurricane Wilma, restoration is progressing roughly four times as quickly," officials said previouly.

Here are the latest outage numbers as of Monday night.

Photo courtesy Florida Power & Light