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2016 Alachua County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Alachua County, FL went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 944K customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 67 Florida counties and 745th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alachua County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 1, 2016 17:30 | September 5, 2016 08:00 | 3d 14h | 14,974 | 334K |
| 2 | June 10, 2016 20:30 | June 12, 2016 09:00 | 1d 12h | 13,011 | 62K |
| 3 | October 6, 2016 19:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 1d 22h | 6,119 | 109K |
| 4 | May 13, 2016 20:00 | May 17, 2016 03:45 | 3d 7h | 5,739 | 69K |
| 5 | May 20, 2016 12:15 | May 21, 2016 23:15 | 1d 11h | 5,636 | 19K |
| 6 | November 27, 2016 11:30 | November 27, 2016 15:30 | 4h | 4,856 | 6,073 |
| 7 | August 14, 2016 21:00 | August 16, 2016 01:15 | 1d 4h | 4,101 | 17K |
| 8 | June 22, 2016 02:45 | August 1, 2016 02:30 | 39d 23h | 3,412 | 46K |
| 9 | March 25, 2016 02:30 | March 25, 2016 22:45 | 20h 15m | 3,104 | 8,765 |
| 10 | June 3, 2016 12:15 | June 8, 2016 08:30 | 4d 20h | 2,868 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 106 reached 100+ customers, 28 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Alachua County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 6.9 hrs | 1.09 | 62 min | 0.74 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2016 | 6.0 hrs | 1.57 | 1.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2016 | 4.0 hrs | 3.86 | 3.1 hrs | 3.52 |
| Central Florida Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 20.8 hrs | - | 3.8 hrs | - |
| Gainesville Regional Utilities | 2016 | 3.5 hrs | 1.38 | 54 min | 0.94 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alachua - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Newberry - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 218,548 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. Alachua County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alachua County, FL annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/florida/alachua-county