Power Out Map
– 0% of Bradford out 0 customers out in Florida

Power outage history

Bradford County Florida

4.3hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

52nd most of 67 in Florida 35% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 11, 2017 69% of customers out · 90% back in 5.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.3h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 7.7days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 16 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 17,679 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Bradford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bradford, hours without power per customer

BradfordUS median countyFlorida average
0 10 20 30 40 2.1 ’15 6.0 ’16 33 ’17 2.2 ’18 3.3 ’19 3.4 ’20 1.8 ’21 3.0 ’22 3.0 ’23 16 ’24 1.7 ’25 FL 7.8 US 6.6

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
Sep 10, 2017 Hurricane Irma 12,207 69% 7.7 d 5.3 d 511k
Sep 26, 2024 Hurricane Helene 9,072 51% 2.6 d 36 h 195k
Aug 5, 2024 Hurricane Debby 5,258 30% 33 h 25 h 47k
Oct 7, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 2,567 15% 28 h 19 h 46k
Feb 7, 2017 Tornadoes 6,670 38% 39 h 15 h 43k
Feb 6, 2020 Thunderstorms 5,357 30% 25 h 11 h 24k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 3,275 19% 17 h 10 h 20k
Apr 19, 2019 Thunderstorms 4,236 24% 15 h 8.8 h 17k
Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 2,251 13% 18 h 12 h 15k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 880 5% 28 h – 15k
Nov 10, 2022 Hurricane Nicole 1,453 8% 26 h 16 h 13k
Oct 10, 2024 Hurricane Milton 917 5% 11 h 6.5 h 6.3k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +12h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bradford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 60%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Thunderstorms 12%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bradford

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
Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc Cooperative 205 205 2.60 14.0 174k
City of Starke FL 221 – 2.06 11.7 24k

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

Across Florida

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Florida counties →

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 17,679 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 →