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2015 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Florida average 1.6 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 67 Florida counties and 982nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 30, 2015 16:00 | July 1, 2015 23:30 | 1d 7h | 6,988 | 12K |
| 2 | August 23, 2015 20:30 | August 24, 2015 05:00 | 8h 30m | 2,646 | 3,623 |
| 3 | April 19, 2015 20:15 | April 20, 2015 03:15 | 7h | 2,575 | 7,077 |
| 4 | July 4, 2015 01:15 | July 4, 2015 02:45 | 1h 30m | 2,218 | 1,860 |
| 5 | September 23, 2015 11:15 | September 23, 2015 16:45 | 5h 30m | 2,217 | 1,119 |
| 6 | April 15, 2015 21:45 | April 16, 2015 03:15 | 5h 30m | 2,085 | 1,064 |
| 7 | July 24, 2015 12:30 | July 24, 2015 13:45 | 1h 15m | 2,080 | 1,560 |
| 8 | May 11, 2015 21:15 | May 12, 2015 03:15 | 6h | 1,991 | 2,688 |
| 9 | February 2, 2015 15:15 | February 2, 2015 17:30 | 2h 15m | 1,687 | 848 |
| 10 | April 15, 2015 15:00 | April 15, 2015 18:00 | 3h | 1,661 | 479 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 87 reached 100+ customers, 28 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 65 min | 0.82 | 62 min | 0.79 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2015 | 3.3 hrs | 4.03 | 2.8 hrs | 3.29 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2015 | 8.1 hrs | 4.58 | 5.2 hrs | 3.58 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Florida's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 38,562 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, FL annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/florida/columbia-county