County annual report · FIPS 12053
2016 Hernando County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hernando County, FL went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 303K customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1053rd 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 Hernando 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 | July 28, 2016 14:15 | July 29, 2016 01:00 | 10h 45m | 13,783 | 25K |
| 2 | September 1, 2016 10:30 | September 5, 2016 01:30 | 3d 15h | 8,689 | 77K |
| 3 | October 26, 2016 10:30 | October 26, 2016 14:15 | 3h 45m | 7,668 | 7,671 |
| 4 | October 30, 2016 00:45 | October 30, 2016 05:30 | 4h 45m | 5,957 | 8,254 |
| 5 | August 31, 2016 14:45 | August 31, 2016 23:30 | 8h 45m | 5,833 | 5,790 |
| 6 | May 4, 2016 08:15 | May 5, 2016 02:45 | 18h 30m | 4,854 | 11K |
| 7 | August 14, 2016 18:15 | August 15, 2016 04:45 | 10h 30m | 3,609 | 7,413 |
| 8 | December 1, 2016 15:15 | December 1, 2016 18:00 | 2h 45m | 2,708 | 6,768 |
| 9 | April 19, 2016 12:00 | April 19, 2016 14:00 | 2h | 2,643 | 1,983 |
| 10 | June 6, 2016 16:15 | June 7, 2016 21:00 | 1d 4h | 2,375 | 7,633 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 137 reached 100+ customers, 49 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 Hernando 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2016 | 6.0 hrs | 1.57 | 1.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 2.41 | 2.6 hrs | 2.26 |
| Sumter Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 108,453 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. Hernando County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hernando 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/hernando-county