Power outage history
Hamilton County Florida
33hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
4th most of 67 in Florida 5.0× 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 Hamilton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hamilton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 7,855 | 88% | 9.4 d | 6.2 d | 791k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 8,888 | 100% | 7.5 d | 5.2 d | 767k |
| Sep 10, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 8,888 | 100% | 6.7 d | 44 h | 386k |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 7,050 | 79% | 2.7 d | 47 h | 251k |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 2,761 | 31% | 3.1 d | 2.3 d | 103k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,311 | 49% | 3.3 d | 31 h | 91k |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,630 | 30% | 30 h | 19 h | 42k |
| Jan 3, 2018 | No storm report | 1,608 | 18% | 34 h | 26 h | 27k |
| Apr 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,512 | 28% | 17 h | 13 h | 19k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Hurricane Elsa | 2,370 | 27% | 25 h | 14 h | 17k |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 1,225 | 14% | 22 h | 15 h | 13k |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,931 | 22% | 27 h | 8.5 h | 10.0k |
| Dec 17, 2023 | No storm report | 1,151 | 13% | 12 h | 9.2 h | 8.5k |
| Mar 24, 2016 | No storm report | 1,388 | 16% | 16 h | 14 h | 8.2k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,661 | 19% | 9.0 h | 7.5 h | 6.9k |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Hurricane Nicole | 859 | 10% | 23 h | 11 h | 6.4k |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Winter storm | 929 | 10% | 12 h | 4.5 h | 5.5k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 1,306 | 15% | 8.2 h | 5.8 h | 5.4k |
| Nov 23, 2025 | No storm report | 861 | 10% | 9.8 h | 9.8 h | 4.6k |
| Jun 22, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,022 | 12% | 8.8 h | 7.2 h | 4.6k |
| Nov 30, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,501 | 17% | 8.0 h | 7.5 h | 4.3k |
| Oct 3, 2021 | No storm report | 6,899 | 78% | 48 min | 7.2 h | 4.2k |
| Jul 5, 2019 | No storm report | 1,785 | 20% | 3.8 h | 12 min | 4.1k |
| Dec 4, 2024 | No storm report | 1,620 | 18% | 6.5 h | 6.5 h | 3.8k |
| May 14, 2023 | No storm report | 812 | 9% | 4.2 h | 2.5 h | 3.4k |
| Nov 8, 2021 | No storm report | 6,864 | 77% | 30 min | 1.0 h | 3.4k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | No storm report | 726 | 8% | 10 h | 14 h | 3.3k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | No storm report | 2,035 | 23% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 3.0k |
| May 26, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 646 | 7% | 12 h | 13 h | 2.9k |
| Jul 21, 2020 | No storm report | 933 | 11% | 4.8 h | 4.0 h | 2.8k |
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 Hamilton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 82%
- No storm on record 10.0%
- Thunderstorms 7.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hamilton
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 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 212 | 212 | 3.24 | 17.6 | 26k |
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
- Madison 43 h
- Hamilton (this county) 33 h
- Suwannee 28 h
- Lowndes, GA 27 h
- Columbia 18 h
- Echols, GA 15 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 8,888 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 →