Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Lafayette County Florida

32hours

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

5th most of 67 in Florida 4.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Idalia · Aug 31, 2023 100% of customers out · 90% back in 6.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 32h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 9.9days Hurricane Idalia, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 92% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 4.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,645 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 Lafayette'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lafayette, hours without power per customer

LafayetteUS median countyFlorida average
0 50 100 150 6.8 ’15 8.4 ’16 91 ’17 12 ’18 3.5 ’19 5.1 ’20 5.9 ’21 6.1 ’22 116 ’23 106 ’24 4.0 ’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
Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 4,645 100% 9.9 d 6.4 d 513k
Sep 10, 2017 Hurricane Irma 4,645 100% 7.1 d 6.1 d 372k
Sep 26, 2024 Hurricane Helene 3,106 67% 8.8 d 3.7 d 208k
Aug 4, 2024 Hurricane Debby 4,540 98% 3.9 d 2.5 d 197k
May 10, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,853 83% 2.2 d 31 h 59k
Jan 3, 2018 Winter storm 1,605 35% 36 h 31 h 19k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 716 15% 2.2 d 35 h 17k
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 2,527 54% 24 h 21 h 16k
Jan 22, 2017 No storm report 1,668 36% 26 h 48 min 15k
Jul 7, 2021 Hurricane Elsa 928 20% 29 h 21 h 11k
Jul 7, 2022 No storm report 1,100 24% 6.8 h 6.8 h 7.4k
Feb 25, 2015 Thunderstorms 841 18% 14 h 5.5 h 5.3k

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 +32h

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

  • Tropical storm 83%
  • No storm on record 7.6%
  • Thunderstorms 7.1%
  • Winter storm 1.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lafayette

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
Central Florida Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 134 134 1.94 15.2 33k
Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 212 212 3.24 17.6 26k

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 4,645 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 →