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2018 Walton County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Walton County, FL went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 534K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 67 Florida counties and 731st 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 Walton 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 11:00 | October 22, 2018 23:15 | 12d 12h | 28,060 | 406K |
| 2 | July 5, 2018 10:00 | July 5, 2018 23:00 | 13h | 3,901 | 4,978 |
| 3 | December 28, 2018 10:45 | December 28, 2018 12:45 | 2h | 3,785 | 2,087 |
| 4 | July 6, 2018 17:45 | July 6, 2018 18:30 | 45m | 2,932 | 738 |
| 5 | July 6, 2018 13:30 | July 6, 2018 14:30 | 1h | 2,922 | 1,461 |
| 6 | July 6, 2018 15:30 | July 6, 2018 15:45 | 15m | 2,922 | 731 |
| 7 | June 28, 2018 23:30 | June 29, 2018 19:15 | 19h 45m | 2,825 | 11K |
| 8 | February 20, 2018 23:45 | February 26, 2018 16:30 | 5d 16h | 1,763 | 2,314 |
| 9 | September 7, 2018 14:30 | September 7, 2018 23:15 | 8h 45m | 1,734 | 493 |
| 10 | December 9, 2018 04:00 | December 9, 2018 05:45 | 1h 45m | 1,613 | 2,017 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 128 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Walton 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 |
| Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 15.1 hrs | 1.94 | 82 min | 0.99 |
| Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Florida El Coop Assn, 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 ÷ 71,399 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. Walton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Walton 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/walton-county