Walton County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Walton County, Florida had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.62 times the US outage time per person and 0.32 times the Florida rate. It ranks 57 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 28,060 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.0 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	45,906	66	0
2016	30,815	29	0
2017	63,250	49	1
2018	480,401	101	1
2019	74,710	86	0
2020	242,380	105	5
2021	65,806	88	1
2022	72,930	126	0
2023	155,918	102	2

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	56.0	28,060	399,630
Sep 16, 2020	50.8	7,535	111,052
Jun 16, 2023	25.5	7,846	55,279
Oct 29, 2020	12.5	4,009	14,650
May 7, 2020	18.2	1,475	14,643

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.