County annual report · FIPS 12023
2016 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 462K customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 67 Florida counties and 282nd 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 Columbia 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 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | September 18, 2016 13:45 | 36d 17h | 12,539 | 314K |
| 2 | May 20, 2016 11:45 | May 21, 2016 03:45 | 16h | 4,798 | 15K |
| 3 | June 16, 2016 01:30 | June 16, 2016 04:45 | 3h 15m | 3,750 | 1,890 |
| 4 | October 7, 2016 05:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 1d 12h | 3,250 | 46K |
| 5 | July 12, 2016 20:30 | July 14, 2016 04:45 | 1d 8h | 2,227 | 8,539 |
| 6 | September 20, 2016 19:45 | September 21, 2016 01:30 | 5h 45m | 1,882 | 1,573 |
| 7 | April 22, 2016 21:00 | April 23, 2016 02:00 | 5h | 1,868 | 602 |
| 8 | May 17, 2016 17:15 | May 19, 2016 02:45 | 1d 9h | 1,641 | 3,360 |
| 9 | January 22, 2016 18:00 | January 23, 2016 06:00 | 12h | 1,626 | 3,020 |
| 10 | November 30, 2016 17:45 | November 30, 2016 18:45 | 1h | 1,626 | 815 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 89 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2016 | 18.4 hrs | 4.28 | 4.5 hrs | 3.00 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/columbia-county