Outages are most widespread in the sparsely populated counties of the northern Gulf Coast, while the capital of Tallahassee has so far largely escaped major power impacts.
Hurricane Idalia has already wiped out electricity to a quarter of a million customers and threatens to leave even more in the dark as it barrels across the state.
The storm made landfall on the state’s Gulf Coast Wednesday morning, cutting off power to more than 260,000 people as of Wednesday morning, according to poweroutage.us, before moving inland.
Outages are most widespread in the sparsely populated counties of the northern Gulf Coast, while the capital of Tallahassee has so far largely escaped major power impacts.
Florida’s largest utilities, including Duke Energy and Florida Power and Light, did not yet have estimates for how many outages to expect or how long restoration efforts would take.
