County annual report · FIPS 12055
2015 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 122K customer-hours (Florida average 1.6 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 67 Florida counties and 874th 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 Highlands 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 | October 29, 2015 08:45 | October 30, 2015 01:45 | 17h | 3,693 | 7,035 |
| 2 | July 1, 2015 22:00 | July 2, 2015 08:45 | 10h 45m | 3,348 | 4,692 |
| 3 | August 26, 2015 14:45 | August 27, 2015 05:15 | 14h 30m | 2,411 | 3,554 |
| 4 | March 29, 2015 23:45 | March 30, 2015 02:45 | 3h | 2,214 | 827 |
| 5 | November 22, 2015 07:15 | November 22, 2015 10:15 | 3h | 2,200 | 1,117 |
| 6 | July 14, 2015 12:00 | July 14, 2015 14:30 | 2h 30m | 2,196 | 1,109 |
| 7 | May 12, 2015 12:00 | May 13, 2015 07:15 | 19h 15m | 2,077 | 1,459 |
| 8 | November 21, 2015 00:45 | November 21, 2015 14:30 | 13h 45m | 1,809 | 11K |
| 9 | February 21, 2015 14:00 | February 21, 2015 15:00 | 1h | 1,801 | 1,801 |
| 10 | September 15, 2015 13:30 | September 15, 2015 21:45 | 8h 15m | 1,783 | 535 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 121 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Highlands 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.9 hrs | 3.48 | 63 min | 0.80 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,050 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. Highlands County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highlands 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/highlands-county