Power outage history
Gadsden County Florida
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
27th most of 67 in Florida 2.1× 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 Gadsden'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 3.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Gadsden, 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 | 15,112 | 42% | 15.2 d | 12.6 d | 2.9M |
| Sep 1, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 11,463 | 32% | 4.6 d | 3.0 d | 402k |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 8,452 | 23% | 2.0 d | 12 h | 234k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 5,149 | 14% | 41 h | 33 h | 121k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | No storm report | 5,325 | 15% | 45 h | 39 h | 82k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 5,453 | 15% | 32 h | 24 h | 68k |
| May 10, 2024 | Tornadoes | 4,512 | 13% | 44 h | 35 h | 55k |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Tropical Storm Fred | 4,300 | 12% | 25 h | 18 h | 33k |
| Apr 27, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,256 | 9% | 26 h | 25 h | 28k |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 6,869 | 19% | 7.8 h | 12 min | 18k |
| Apr 29, 2020 | Tornadoes | 1,581 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,948 | 11% | 6.5 h | 5.5 h | 10k |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 2,938 | 8% | 11 h | 6.0 h | 9.9k |
| Feb 2, 2020 | No storm report | 2,260 | 6% | 4.8 h | 1.2 h | 8.8k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | No storm report | 2,623 | 7% | 4.0 h | 1.5 h | 8.2k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | No storm report | 3,953 | 11% | 7.0 h | 2.0 h | 7.9k |
| Dec 25, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,286 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 7.4k |
| Apr 19, 2019 | No storm report | 2,924 | 8% | 3.5 h | 2.0 h | 6.5k |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,292 | 6% | 6.5 h | 6.5 h | 6.2k |
| Jul 4, 2017 | No storm report | 1,904 | 5% | 3.8 h | 4.2 h | 6.1k |
| Aug 21, 2015 | No storm report | 2,430 | 7% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 6.1k |
| Mar 17, 2022 | No storm report | 2,579 | 7% | 3.2 h | 3.0 h | 5.8k |
| Jun 24, 2019 | No storm report | 2,015 | 6% | 3.5 h | 2.5 h | 5.8k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 1,967 | 5% | 6.2 h | 6.2 h | 5.3k |
| Sep 3, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,638 | 5% | 4.0 h | – | 4.9k |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Tropical Storm Claudette | 1,593 | 4% | 4.2 h | – | 4.6k |
| Jul 27, 2016 | No storm report | 2,605 | 7% | 1.8 h | 7.2 h | 4.6k |
| May 17, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,378 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 4.4k |
| Oct 1, 2018 | No storm report | 2,411 | 7% | 2.0 h | 2.2 h | 4.3k |
| Jan 4, 2020 | No storm report | 1,805 | 5% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 4.2k |
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 Gadsden from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 86%
- No storm on record 9.8%
- Thunderstorms 2.2%
- Tornadoes 1.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Gadsden
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talquin Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 421 | 225 | 3.56 | 15.2 | 54k |
| City of Quincy | FL | – | – | – | – | 49k |
| Havana Power & Light Company | FL | 107 | 26 | 0.80 | 10.7 | 14k |
| City of Chattahoochee | FL | – | – | – | – | 11k |
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
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 36,014 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 →