Hurricane Matthew: Interactive FPL power outage map

Hurricane Matthew's strongest winds remained offshore, but persistent tropical storm force winds Thursday and Friday wreaked havoc on the east coast of Florida.

Before Matthew started impacted Florida's weather, Florida Power & Light estimated that 2.5 million customers could lose power at some point as Matthew marched up Florida's east coast. That's more than half of the utility's 4.8 million customers.

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The USA TODAY Network's data team has built an interactive graphic drawing power outage data from FPL, showing real-time information for every county affected by Hurricane Matthew.

RESOURCE: Report power outages by visiting FPL's Storm Center or calling 1-800-4OUTAGE (800-468-8243).

Hurricane Matthew formed Sept. 30, growing at one point to a Category 5 hurricane, and has torn through Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas.

Floridians grew wary of the storm, which threatened to be Florida's first east coast landfalling hurricane in October since 1950. Although the eye wall grew close to Florida's coastline, the center of the eye never crossed the coastline, so meteorologists could not declare an official landfall.

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