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2020 Bay County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bay County, FL went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 335K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1667th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bay County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 22, 2020 13:30 | July 23, 2020 08:30 | 19h | 7,572 | 18K |
| 2 | September 15, 2020 13:30 | September 19, 2020 11:30 | 3d 22h | 7,333 | 66K |
| 3 | August 11, 2020 18:30 | August 12, 2020 03:15 | 8h 45m | 4,480 | 11K |
| 4 | January 3, 2020 11:45 | January 4, 2020 12:45 | 1d 1h | 3,895 | 7,159 |
| 5 | October 22, 2020 02:15 | October 22, 2020 15:00 | 12h 45m | 3,720 | 5,627 |
| 6 | April 23, 2020 21:15 | April 24, 2020 07:45 | 10h 30m | 3,527 | 11K |
| 7 | February 6, 2020 09:15 | February 7, 2020 19:45 | 1d 10h | 3,328 | 29K |
| 8 | July 18, 2020 00:00 | July 18, 2020 05:30 | 5h 30m | 3,133 | 4,612 |
| 9 | November 28, 2020 06:45 | November 28, 2020 09:00 | 2h 15m | 3,128 | 7,038 |
| 10 | July 20, 2020 14:30 | July 21, 2020 04:00 | 13h 30m | 2,850 | 2,631 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 143 reached 100+ customers, 36 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 70 min | 0.75 | 49 min | 0.59 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.27 | 1.6 hrs | 1.16 |
| Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 12.5 hrs | 5.30 | 8.1 hrs | 4.00 |
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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/florida/bay-county