Power Out Map
– 0% of Walton out 0 customers out in Florida

Power outage history

Walton County Florida

3.1hours

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

59th most of 67 in Florida 53% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 10, 2018 39% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.1h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 18hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.3days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 70% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 7.4 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 71,399 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 Walton'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 7.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Walton, hours without power per customer

WaltonUS median countyFlorida average
0 2 4 6 8 10 1.0 ’15 0.8 ’16 1.2 ’17 7.4 ’18 1.4 ’19 3.8 ’20 1.6 ’21 1.5 ’22 2.7 ’23 4.2 ’24 1.9 ’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 28,060 39% 2.3 d 2.1 d 400k
Jan 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 9,914 14% 36 h 27 h 127k
Sep 16, 2020 Hurricane Sally 7,535 11% 32 h 26 h 100k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 7,846 11% 11 h 8.8 h 41k
May 10, 2024 Tornadoes 3,545 5% 7.5 h – 17k
Nov 16, 2021 No storm report 9,052 13% 1.8 h 1.8 h 16k
Nov 18, 2015 No storm report 8,645 12% 3.0 h 2.5 h 14k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 1,746 2% 8.2 h – 12k
Nov 11, 2019 No storm report 4,872 7% 3.5 h 3.5 h 11k
May 6, 2020 No storm report 1,475 2% 9.8 h – 11k
Jun 17, 2023 No storm report 1,846 3% 7.8 h – 10k
Jan 2, 2017 Flooding 2,187 3% 5.0 h – 10k

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 +4h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Walton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 46%
  • No storm on record 30%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Tornadoes 3.0%
  • Winter storm 1.4%
  • Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Walton

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
Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 88 81 0.95 14.0 59k
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+

All Florida 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 71,399 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 →