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2021 Bay County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bay County, FL went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 366K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1505th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bay County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 10, 2021 14:00 | April 12, 2021 08:15 | 1d 18h | 31,376 | 106K |
| 2 | August 15, 2021 17:00 | August 17, 2021 22:00 | 2d 5h | 18,567 | 101K |
| 3 | August 10, 2021 06:15 | August 10, 2021 10:45 | 4h 30m | 7,662 | 5,809 |
| 4 | February 15, 2021 13:30 | February 16, 2021 06:15 | 16h 45m | 3,885 | 10K |
| 5 | May 20, 2021 09:15 | May 20, 2021 18:00 | 8h 45m | 3,587 | 6,313 |
| 6 | August 31, 2021 07:00 | August 31, 2021 22:45 | 15h 45m | 3,551 | 2,840 |
| 7 | May 28, 2021 11:15 | May 28, 2021 16:45 | 5h 30m | 3,075 | 2,901 |
| 8 | October 28, 2021 06:45 | October 28, 2021 13:30 | 6h 45m | 2,922 | 5,374 |
| 9 | April 5, 2021 22:30 | April 6, 2021 00:15 | 1h 45m | 2,867 | 4,301 |
| 10 | April 6, 2021 20:30 | April 6, 2021 23:00 | 2h 30m | 2,777 | 1,319 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 136 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 55 min | 0.58 | 45 min | 0.51 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 | 90 min | 1.00 |
| Gulf Coast Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 26.8 hrs | 5.20 | 8.1 hrs | 4.29 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 98% of Florida's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/florida/bay-county