Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Gulf County Florida

24hours

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

11th most of 67 in Florida 3.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 6.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 24h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 11.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.3days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 5.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 9,722 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 Gulf's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Gulf, hours without power per customer

GulfUS median countyFlorida average
0 10 20 30 40 1.3 ’15 2.4 ’16 7.7 ’17 129 ’18 7.1 ’19 7.6 ’20 7.8 ’21 2.9 ’22 13 ’23 11 ’24 11 ’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
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 9,722 100% 8.3 d 6.2 d 1.0M
Oct 24, 2018 No storm report 1,502 15% 5.6 d 5.4 d 110k
Jun 26, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,019 21% 15 h 15 h 30k
Aug 26, 2023 Heat 1,919 20% 14 h 12 h 25k
Sep 26, 2024 Hurricane Helene 2,952 30% 14 h 5.0 h 23k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 2,173 22% 2.8 d 2.5 h 23k
Oct 27, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,687 28% 14 h 11 h 23k
Jun 21, 2023 No storm report 1,589 16% 14 h 9.0 h 14k
Jan 22, 2017 No storm report 2,756 28% 11 h 8.5 h 13k
Jan 9, 2024 Windstorm 2,845 29% 8.8 h 2.0 h 13k
Jan 15, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,109 11% 14 h 11 h 12k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,793 29% 13 h 3.2 h 12k

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 +8h 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 Gulf from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 62%
  • No storm on record 29%
  • Thunderstorms 5.3%
  • Heat 1.4%
  • Windstorm 0.8%
  • Winter storm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Gulf

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
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

Across Florida

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 9,722 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 →