Power outage history
Bay County Florida
29hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
8th most of 67 in Florida 4.4× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Bay's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 8.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Bay, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 88,692 | 100% | 14.4 d | 13.2 d | 18M |
| Oct 25, 2018 | No storm report | 12,184 | 14% | 5.7 d | 19 h | 345k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 9,845 | 11% | 33 h | 29 h | 127k |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Tropical Storm Fred | 18,567 | 21% | 14 h | 10 h | 98k |
| Apr 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 22,222 | 25% | 13 h | 10 h | 90k |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 7,333 | 8% | 18 h | 13 h | 57k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 7,924 | 9% | 11 h | 10 h | 38k |
| Nov 18, 2023 | No storm report | 3,437 | 4% | 9.2 h | – | 31k |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,050 | 6% | 11 h | 7.8 h | 28k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | No storm report | 4,189 | 5% | 6.5 h | – | 25k |
| Feb 6, 2020 | No storm report | 3,328 | 4% | 10 h | – | 24k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,395 | 8% | 5.0 h | 4.0 h | 23k |
| May 28, 2018 | Tropical Storm Alberto | 5,843 | 7% | 11 h | 6.5 h | 23k |
| Aug 24, 2017 | No storm report | 6,399 | 7% | 7.0 h | 2.0 h | 19k |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 7,572 | 9% | 4.5 h | 3.8 h | 16k |
| Oct 9, 2019 | No storm report | 5,472 | 6% | 4.2 h | 2.5 h | 16k |
| Jun 30, 2017 | No storm report | 5,609 | 6% | 3.8 h | 2.0 h | 15k |
| Sep 5, 2017 | No storm report | 11,379 | 13% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 15k |
| Oct 31, 2018 | No storm report | 4,912 | 6% | 8.8 h | 20 h | 14k |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,271 | 3% | 11 h | – | 14k |
| Sep 25, 2024 | No storm report | 1,214 | 1% | 12 h | – | 14k |
| Jan 25, 2024 | No storm report | 1,609 | 2% | 8.2 h | – | 13k |
| Jul 13, 2018 | No storm report | 3,331 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 13k |
| Sep 5, 2020 | No storm report | 2,033 | 2% | 7.2 h | – | 13k |
| Sep 24, 2022 | No storm report | 3,569 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 13k |
| Jul 3, 2022 | No storm report | 6,359 | 7% | 6.0 h | 6.0 h | 12k |
| Jul 21, 2023 | No storm report | 3,427 | 4% | 6.8 h | – | 12k |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,254 | 3% | 7.5 h | – | 12k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | No storm report | 2,732 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 11k |
| Nov 26, 2018 | No storm report | 3,075 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 11k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bay from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 92%
- No storm on record 5.7%
- Thunderstorms 2.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Bay
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Florida territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 47 | 45 | 0.46 | 14.6 | 5.3M |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | Investor Owned | 87 | 82 | 0.97 | 18.4 | 1.8M |
| Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 336 | 257 | 2.78 | 14.9 | 22k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Bay (this county) 29 h
- Gulf 24 h
- Calhoun 18 h
- Jackson 17 h
- Washington 17 h
- Walton 3.1 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 88,692 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →