When will the power be back in Gilchrist County, FL?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Gilchrist County, FL right now.

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Elsewhere in Florida: 71,149 customers reported out — statewide status.

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Who serves Gilchrist County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Central Florida Electric Cooperative ↗, Duke Energy Florida and Clay Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Gilchrist County, FL

Last significant outage: Sep 7, 2026 — peaked at 225 customers, restored in ~1.7 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.8 hr (median).

Every outage behind these figures (5)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Sep 7, 2026	225	~1.7 hr	no severe weather
Aug 20, 2026	278	~4.8 hr	heat event
Aug 18, 2026	463	~5.8 hr	heat event
Aug 12, 2026	502	~4 hr	heat event
Jul 30, 2026	1,716	~6.2 hr	wind/storm

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 30, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Gilchrist County, FL

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 293 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is shorter than the Florida norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.

Largest on record: ~11,171 customers out in September 2024, restored after about 6.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Communities covered

Communities in Gilchrist County include Trenton, Bell and Spring Ridge. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Gilchrist County, FL?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Gilchrist include Central Florida Electric Cooperative, Duke Energy Florida and Clay Electric Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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