Power outage history
Escambia County Florida
10hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
32nd most of 67 in Florida 1.5× 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 Escambia's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Escambia, 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 15, 2020 | Hurricane Sally | 156,882 | 87% | 6.3 d | 4.5 d | 11M |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Flooding | 24,650 | 14% | 39 h | 22 h | 200k |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 22,143 | 12% | 20 h | 11 h | 198k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 12,337 | 7% | 34 h | 39 h | 178k |
| Apr 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 24,289 | 13% | 13 h | 10 h | 137k |
| Feb 15, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 18,448 | 10% | 16 h | 14 h | 134k |
| Sep 4, 2018 | Tropical Storm Gordon | 17,396 | 10% | 17 h | 12 h | 126k |
| Feb 23, 2016 | Tornadoes | 9,900 | 5% | 22 h | 24 h | 88k |
| May 1, 2017 | No storm report | 10,973 | 6% | 12 h | 12 h | 77k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,419 | 2% | 14 h | – | 46k |
| Oct 7, 2017 | Hurricane Nate | 5,923 | 3% | 11 h | 9.8 h | 44k |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Tropical Storm Claudette | 9,226 | 5% | 7.2 h | 6.8 h | 29k |
| Dec 17, 2023 | No storm report | 4,468 | 2% | 9.0 h | – | 25k |
| Apr 25, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 6,802 | 4% | 6.0 h | 7.8 h | 24k |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 5,510 | 3% | 4.0 h | 3.2 h | 19k |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Flooding | 5,181 | 3% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 18k |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 5,410 | 3% | 5.2 h | 5.8 h | 17k |
| Jul 3, 2025 | No storm report | 2,157 | 1% | 7.0 h | – | 15k |
| Jun 7, 2020 | Tropical Storm Cristobal | 5,198 | 3% | 5.0 h | 4.0 h | 13k |
| Nov 30, 2023 | No storm report | 2,079 | 1% | 6.0 h | – | 12k |
| Nov 21, 2019 | No storm report | 3,372 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 12k |
| Jun 7, 2020 | Tropical Storm Cristobal | 4,511 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 12k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | No storm report | 4,378 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 12k |
| May 4, 2019 | No storm report | 4,477 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 27, 2024 | No storm report | 2,373 | 1% | 4.5 h | – | 10k |
| Mar 21, 2024 | No storm report | 3,178 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 10k |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,775 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 9.2k |
| Jan 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,142 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 8.6k |
| Jan 23, 2015 | No storm report | 3,422 | 2% | 2.5 h | – | 8.4k |
| Apr 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 5,043 | 3% | 2.8 h | 4.5 h | 8.4k |
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 Escambia from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 93%
- Thunderstorms 3.1%
- No storm on record 2.8%
- Flooding 1.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Escambia
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 |
| Escambia River Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.9 | 12k |
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
- Escambia (this county) 10 h
- Baldwin, AL 9.5 h
- Santa Rosa 6.5 h
- Escambia, AL 6.4 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 180,891 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 →