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2018 Bay County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bay County, FL went without power for an average of 212.2 hours, a total of 18.8M customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 22nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bay County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 10, 2018 02:00 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 31d 9h | 100,592 | 18.5M |
| 2 | April 9, 2018 13:45 | April 9, 2018 18:15 | 4h 30m | 11,283 | 8,486 |
| 3 | November 10, 2018 15:00 | December 31, 2018 00:15 | 50d 9h | 8,322 | 93K |
| 4 | May 28, 2018 11:30 | May 30, 2018 06:45 | 1d 19h | 5,843 | 27K |
| 5 | June 30, 2018 20:30 | July 1, 2018 06:30 | 10h | 3,822 | 8,007 |
| 6 | September 30, 2018 19:45 | October 2, 2018 03:30 | 1d 7h | 3,494 | 9,581 |
| 7 | January 24, 2018 14:00 | January 24, 2018 18:15 | 4h 15m | 3,371 | 7,180 |
| 8 | July 12, 2018 13:00 | July 13, 2018 15:00 | 1d 2h | 3,331 | 13K |
| 9 | June 3, 2018 18:00 | June 4, 2018 07:30 | 13h 30m | 2,832 | 5,799 |
| 10 | July 26, 2018 06:00 | July 27, 2018 00:00 | 18h | 2,677 | 1,638 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 170 reached 100+ customers, 28 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Bay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2018 | 60 min | 0.71 | 55 min | 0.65 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.38 | 1.9 hrs | 1.20 |
| Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Florida's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 88,692 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Bay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bay County, FL annual power outage report, 2018, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/florida/bay-county