Power outage history
Jackson County Florida
17hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
20th most of 67 in Florida 2.6× 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 Jackson'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 4.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Jackson, 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 21, 2018 | No storm report | 10,508 | 36% | 16.3 d | 15.2 d | 2.1M |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 13,178 | 45% | 6.0 d | 3.0 h | 1.2M |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,644 | 19% | 39 h | 30 h | 82k |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Tropical Storm Fred | 5,473 | 19% | 29 h | 20 h | 79k |
| Oct 18, 2018 | No storm report | 9,720 | 33% | 4.0 h | 3.2 h | 37k |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,498 | 12% | 30 h | 20 h | 33k |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,979 | 7% | 25 h | 24 h | 22k |
| May 24, 2021 | No storm report | 3,180 | 11% | 6.5 h | 6.5 h | 21k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,725 | 9% | 16 h | 11 h | 20k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,783 | 6% | 20 h | 12 h | 19k |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,184 | 7% | 14 h | 11 h | 15k |
| May 10, 2025 | No storm report | 3,465 | 12% | 4.5 h | 1.0 h | 15k |
| May 23, 2021 | No storm report | 3,185 | 11% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 11k |
| Aug 28, 2018 | No storm report | 3,058 | 10% | 2.8 h | 5.5 h | 8.4k |
| Aug 21, 2025 | No storm report | 3,402 | 12% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 8.2k |
| Apr 15, 2025 | No storm report | 3,369 | 11% | 2.8 h | 30 min | 7.6k |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,465 | 15% | 3.5 h | 1.8 h | 6.7k |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,388 | 5% | 8.5 h | – | 6.4k |
| Dec 2, 2015 | No storm report | 2,965 | 10% | 2.2 h | 6.0 h | 5.7k |
| Sep 1, 2023 | No storm report | 1,077 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 5.4k |
| Dec 4, 2015 | No storm report | 2,957 | 10% | 1.8 h | 3.2 h | 5.2k |
| Apr 30, 2025 | No storm report | 3,432 | 12% | 1.5 h | 6.8 h | 5.1k |
| Nov 26, 2018 | No storm report | 1,971 | 7% | 4.8 h | 3.5 h | 4.9k |
| Sep 25, 2025 | No storm report | 1,042 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 4.8k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 3,443 | 12% | 6.0 h | 48 min | 4.6k |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,117 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 4.4k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,600 | 9% | 3.2 h | 2.5 h | 4.0k |
| Jun 17, 2018 | No storm report | 2,572 | 9% | 2.0 h | 12 min | 3.9k |
| Dec 10, 2015 | No storm report | 582 | 2% | 6.2 h | – | 3.5k |
| Dec 4, 2015 | No storm report | 1,369 | 5% | 2.5 h | – | 3.4k |
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 Jackson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 61%
- Tropical storm 33%
- Thunderstorms 6.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Jackson
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 |
| West Florida El Coop Assn, Inc | Cooperative | 413 | 238 | 3.88 | 16.6 | 27k |
| Florida Public Utilities Co | Investor Owned | 167 | 129 | 1.93 | 17.8 | 26k |
| 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
- Liberty 29 h
- Bay 29 h
- Decatur, GA 19 h
- Calhoun 18 h
- Jackson (this county) 17 h
- Washington 17 h
- Gadsden 13 h
- Holmes 10 h
- Geneva, AL 8.1 h
- Seminole, GA 7.8 h
- Houston, AL 3.6 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 29,415 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 →