Even before hurricane Milton hit Florida, it managed to cause chaos. With so many people evacuating gas stations ran out of gas very quickly and potentially stranding thousands of motorists.
Short on fuel and with lots of traffic, looking for an operational gas station was less than idea.
Luckily there's GasBuddy!
GasBuddy helps users find the best rates for gas thanks to a massive community that keeps the platform updated in almost real-time. That came in handy a few weeks ago.
According to our App Intelligence, GasBuddy's downloads rose nearly 10x vs the daily average between October 7th to the 16th, peaking at 131K new downloads on Friday.
For context, the app sees around 5K new downloads on an average day, according to our estimates.
This peak is GasBuddy's 3rd highest since 2020!
We estimate that in total, GasBuddy was downloaded by 497K people across the App Store and Google Play in this period.
Said differently, GasBuddy helped nearly a half million Floridians in the last week.
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