Power outage history
Madison County Florida
43hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
1st most of 67 in Florida 6.5× 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 Madison'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 7.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Madison, 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 26, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 9,415 | 100% | 8.9 d | 6.5 d | 1.2M |
| Aug 30, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 9,415 | 100% | 8.4 d | 7.4 d | 1.2M |
| Sep 10, 2017 | Hurricane Irma | 8,088 | 86% | 4.8 d | 3.3 d | 486k |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 9,415 | 100% | 3.7 d | 2.5 d | 436k |
| Sep 1, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 8,146 | 87% | 4.7 d | 2.6 d | 297k |
| May 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,947 | 53% | 2.2 d | 32 h | 59k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,022 | 43% | 32 h | 20 h | 35k |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 2,501 | 27% | 30 h | 23 h | 28k |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,721 | 40% | 22 h | 11 h | 21k |
| Feb 6, 2020 | No storm report | 2,129 | 23% | 29 h | 6.8 h | 12k |
| Jun 22, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 5,403 | 57% | 11 h | 3.8 h | 11k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Hurricane Elsa | 1,852 | 20% | 16 h | 9.8 h | 9.1k |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Winter storm | 943 | 10% | 11 h | 6.5 h | 8.5k |
| Jul 23, 2020 | No storm report | 2,289 | 24% | 3.5 h | 2.2 h | 5.9k |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Hurricane Nicole | 2,157 | 23% | 11 h | 2.2 h | 5.7k |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,804 | 19% | 7.5 h | 6.8 h | 5.6k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,277 | 14% | 11 h | 7.2 h | 5.5k |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,425 | 15% | 12 h | 11 h | 5.5k |
| Aug 6, 2023 | No storm report | 492 | 5% | 11 h | 4.5 h | 5.1k |
| Jun 19, 2023 | No storm report | 2,705 | 29% | 7.8 h | 2.0 h | 4.6k |
| Jun 14, 2025 | No storm report | 1,781 | 19% | 3.2 h | 2.8 h | 4.5k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,836 | 20% | 6.8 h | 5.0 h | 4.3k |
| Apr 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,719 | 18% | 11 h | 9.2 h | 4.2k |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Flooding | 2,068 | 22% | 5.5 h | 2.5 h | 4.0k |
| Jun 15, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,038 | 11% | 7.0 h | 3.8 h | 3.5k |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,619 | 17% | 9.0 h | 1.5 h | 3.4k |
| Jul 27, 2021 | No storm report | 1,630 | 17% | 2.0 h | 48 min | 3.3k |
| Jun 1, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,239 | 13% | 7.5 h | 6.5 h | 3.2k |
| Feb 24, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,305 | 14% | 4.8 h | 3.0 h | 3.2k |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Tropical Storm Mindy | 962 | 10% | 10 h | 9.2 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 Madison from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 89%
- No storm on record 5.3%
- Thunderstorms 4.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Madison
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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (FL) | Cooperative | 230 | 230 | 2.40 | 18.4 | 18k |
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
- Madison (this county) 43 h
- Jefferson 39 h
- Taylor 37 h
- Hamilton 33 h
- Lafayette 32 h
- Suwannee 28 h
- Lowndes, GA 27 h
- Brooks, GA 11 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 9,415 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 →