Power outage history
Baker County Florida
6.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
40th most of 67 in Florida close to 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 Baker'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 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Baker, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 15,787 | 99% | 7.8 d | 5.3 d | 613k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 11,299 | 71% | 2.7 d | 37 h | 256k |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 6,352 | 40% | 43 h | 32 h | 74k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,263 | 39% | 37 h | 30 h | 60k |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 2,612 | 16% | 35 h | 11 h | 50k |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 3,480 | 22% | 40 h | 27 h | 49k |
| Jan 3, 2018 | Winter storm | 5,851 | 37% | 29 h | 13 h | 36k |
| Oct 7, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 2,965 | 19% | 29 h | 18 h | 32k |
| Apr 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,813 | 18% | 13 h | 9.8 h | 14k |
| May 26, 2025 | No storm report | 1,867 | 12% | 6.8 h | 6.2 h | 13k |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 659 | 4% | 34 h | – | 12k |
| Jun 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,107 | 32% | 5.2 h | 3.5 h | 12k |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Windstorm | 1,963 | 12% | 24 h | 20 h | 9.0k |
| Jul 21, 2025 | No storm report | 4,132 | 26% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 8.3k |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 414 | 3% | 24 h | – | 7.3k |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,032 | 6% | 13 h | 11 h | 7.2k |
| Dec 24, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,176 | 7% | 16 h | 12 h | 6.9k |
| Nov 10, 2020 | No storm report | 2,129 | 13% | 6.0 h | 6.0 h | 5.9k |
| Jul 31, 2017 | Tropical Storm Emily | 1,270 | 8% | 4.8 h | 6.2 h | 5.7k |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,222 | 8% | 5.8 h | 4.5 h | 4.6k |
| May 3, 2022 | No storm report | 1,215 | 8% | 4.0 h | 5.5 h | 4.6k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Hurricane Elsa | 2,143 | 13% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 4.6k |
| Sep 6, 2020 | No storm report | 2,145 | 13% | 2.5 h | 3.2 h | 4.5k |
| May 11, 2015 | No storm report | 2,281 | 14% | 1.8 h | 5.0 h | 4.0k |
| Jul 30, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,651 | 10% | 4.0 h | 3.8 h | 3.7k |
| Oct 28, 2015 | No storm report | 1,319 | 8% | 4.0 h | 2.2 h | 3.3k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 1,318 | 8% | 7.2 h | 1.8 h | 3.1k |
| Jul 10, 2023 | No storm report | 685 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 3.1k |
| Sep 5, 2020 | No storm report | 673 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 3.0k |
| Apr 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 842 | 5% | 9.5 h | 15 h | 3.0k |
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 Baker from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 55%
- No storm on record 22%
- Thunderstorms 16%
- Winter storm 5.9%
- Windstorm 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Baker
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 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc | Cooperative | 205 | 205 | 2.60 | 14.0 | 174k |
| Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp | Cooperative | 479 | 250 | 3.73 | 14.0 | 11k |
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
- Ware, GA 22 h
- Columbia 18 h
- Charlton, GA 15 h
- Clinch, GA 10 h
- Baker (this county) 6.8 h
- Union 5.3 h
- Bradford 4.3 h
- Clay 4.3 h
- Nassau 3.9 h
- Duval 2.2 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 15,917 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 →