Bay County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bay County, Florida had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.61 times the US outage time per person and 2.35 times the Florida rate. It ranks 10 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

533 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 93% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 100,592 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 532.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	56,944	74	0
2016	120,175	111	0
2017	246,447	159	1
2018	18,696,672	224	2
2019	190,800	183	0
2020	280,235	142	3
2021	318,755	144	2
2022	159,214	140	1
2023	210,635	126	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Oct 10, 2018	532.8	100,592	18,424,174
Apr 10, 2021	16.0	31,376	102,991
Aug 16, 2021	15.5	18,567	98,085
Sep 16, 2020	20.2	7,333	59,075
Jun 16, 2023	12.2	7,924	38,780

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.