Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Wakulla County Florida

25hours

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

10th most of 67 in Florida 3.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 10, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 5.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 25h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.1 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 9.1days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 91% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,148 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 Wakulla'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 3.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wakulla, hours without power per customer

WakullaUS median countyFlorida average
0 20 40 60 80 100 4.9 ’15 68 ’16 30 ’17 83 ’18 5.3 ’19 6.4 ’20 6.3 ’21 5.1 ’22 22 ’23 52 ’24 22 ’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 9, 2018 Hurricane Michael 14,148 100% 9.1 d 5.2 d 1.1M
Sep 1, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 14,148 100% 6.1 d 4.4 d 862k
Sep 25, 2024 Hurricane Helene 14,148 100% 3.9 d 41 h 448k
Sep 10, 2017 Hurricane Irma 6,873 49% 4.6 d 3.3 d 341k
Jan 21, 2025 Ice storm 12,204 86% 44 h 26 h 245k
Aug 29, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 12,420 88% 2.3 d 23 h 177k
May 10, 2024 Thunderstorms 8,291 59% 3.1 d 36 h 141k
Aug 5, 2024 Hurricane Debby 13,214 93% 34 h 11 h 81k
Jan 22, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,402 24% 30 h 26 h 37k
Jun 30, 2015 Thunderstorms 3,035 21% 27 h 21 h 31k
Sep 9, 2021 Tropical Storm Mindy 7,402 52% 12 h 6.0 h 24k
Feb 15, 2016 Thunderstorms 4,170 29% 23 h 11 h 22k

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 +26h

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 Wakulla from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 70%
  • Thunderstorms 10%
  • Ice storm 9.2%
  • No storm on record 9.2%
  • Tornadoes 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wakulla

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
Talquin Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 421 225 3.56 15.2 54k

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 14,148 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 →