Miami Electrical Statistics: Outages, Prices, Housing, Permits and EVs

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By KRW Electric · Published November 12, 2026 · Updated November 12, 2026

FPL’s 5,337,118 residential customers paid an average of 14.6 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2025 and used an average of 1,111 kilowatt-hours a month, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Every figure below gives its source and the period it covers. Where a figure comes from one of our studies, the study has the full method and the data to download.

Power outages

• 63.2 minutes without power per customer in FPL’s South Dade region in 2025, the most of FPL’s 19 regions.Source: FPL 2025 Distribution Reliability Report to the Florida PSC, adjusted figures; our study Power outages in Miami-Dade
• 42.5 minutes without power per customer across all of FPL in 2025.Source: FPL 2025 Distribution Reliability Report to the Florida PSC, adjusted figures; our study Power outages in Miami-Dade
• 51.6 minutes without power per customer across the 1,234,044 customers of FPL’s four Dade regions combined, 2025.Source: KRW Electric calculation from the FPL 2025 report; our study Power outages in Miami-Dade
• 111.4 minutes average length of an outage for South Dade customers who lost power in 2025.Source: FPL 2025 Distribution Reliability Report to the Florida PSC, adjusted figures; our study Power outages in Miami-Dade

Electricity prices and use

• 14.6 cents per kilowatt-hour: FPL’s average residential price in 2025 (residential revenue divided by residential sales).Source: KRW Electric calculation from EIA-861, 2025 data
• 1,111 kWh per month: average use per FPL residential customer in 2025.Source: KRW Electric calculation from EIA-861, 2025 data
• 5,337,118 FPL residential customers in 2025, across FPL’s whole service area.Source: EIA-861, 2025 data
• 2 electric utilities serving Miami-Dade County in 2025: Florida Power & Light and the City of Homestead’s municipal utility.Source: EIA-861, 2025 data; our study Power outages in Miami-Dade

Homes and housing age

• 1,094,983 homes (housing units, including apartments and condos) in Miami-Dade County.Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024; our study How old are Miami-Dade’s homes?
• 1980 median year built of Miami-Dade’s homes, against 1988 for Florida.Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024, table B25035; our study How old are Miami-Dade’s homes?
• 49.6% of Miami-Dade’s homes were built before 1980 (±0.6 points).Source: KRW Electric calculation from the American Community Survey, table B25034; our study How old are Miami-Dade’s homes?
• 1969 median year built in Pinecrest, South Miami, Miami Beach and Coral Gables.Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024, table B25035; our study How old are Miami-Dade’s homes?

Electrical permits in unincorporated Miami-Dade

• 7,400 residential electrical permits issued by Miami-Dade County in 2025.Source: KRW Electric count of Miami-Dade County permit data; our study Miami-Dade electrical permits
• 202 home EV charger permits in 2025, up from 11 in 2021; 106 in January to October 2026, against 181 a year earlier.Source: KRW Electric count of Miami-Dade County permit data; our study Miami-Dade electrical permits
• 170 generator permits in 2025.Source: KRW Electric count of Miami-Dade County permit data; our study Miami-Dade electrical permits
• 181 permits for panels and service upgrades in 2025.Source: KRW Electric count of Miami-Dade County permit data; our study Miami-Dade electrical permits

The county issues permits for unincorporated Miami-Dade only. Cities such as Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, South Miami and Pinecrest issue their own and are not in these counts.

EVs and public charging in Florida

• 450,400 battery-electric vehicles registered in Florida at the end of 2025, plus 88,400 plug-in hybrids.Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center; our study Florida EV charging demand
• 13,650 public charging ports in Florida on December 31, 2025, 4,243 of them DC fast.Source: Alternative Fuels Data Center station counts; our study Florida EV charging demand
• 33.0 battery-electric vehicles per public port in Florida at the end of 2025, against 23.9 across the United States.Source: KRW Electric calculation from Alternative Fuels Data Center counts; our study Florida EV charging demand

Florida Building Code dates

• December 31, 2023 effective date of the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023).Source: Florida Building Commission, floridabuilding.org
• September 23, 2026 the Florida Building Commission’s proposed rule to adopt the Florida Building Code, 9th Edition (2026), was published in the Florida Administrative Register. The notice does not give an effective date.Source: Florida Administrative Register, Rule 61G20-1.001 notice

Which edition applies to a job is for the building department to confirm; our South Florida electrical permits and codes guide explains the process.

About these figures

Each figure above links to its source. Most come from our own studies, where the method, the limits and the data are set out in full. The FPL price, use and customer figures are new here: price is FPL’s 2025 residential revenue divided by its residential sales, and use is residential sales divided by residential customers and by twelve, all from the EIA-861 2025 data. Adding up FPL’s twelve monthly reports for 2025 in EIA’s separate monthly survey (EIA-861M) gives the same price, use and customer count. The code dates were read from the two pages linked above.

The FPL figures are for FPL’s whole service area, not Miami-Dade alone; EIA does not publish them by county. Prices are averages across all residential customers and rate options.

Sources

• U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861, 2025 data: eia.gov
• U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861M, 2025 monthly data: eia.gov
• Florida Building Commission: floridabuilding.org
• Florida Administrative Register, notice of proposed rule 61G20-1.001, September 23, 2026: flrules.org
• The sources of every other figure are listed on the outage study, the housing age study, the permit study and the EV charging study.

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