County annual report · FIPS 12055
2016 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 123K customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 67 Florida counties and 953rd 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 Highlands 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 | October 25, 2016 18:45 | October 25, 2016 19:45 | 1h | 3,540 | 928 |
| 2 | April 27, 2016 12:15 | April 27, 2016 23:30 | 11h 15m | 2,724 | 3,570 |
| 3 | November 13, 2016 12:15 | November 13, 2016 15:30 | 3h 15m | 2,634 | 2,639 |
| 4 | December 23, 2016 20:45 | December 24, 2016 02:00 | 5h 15m | 2,390 | 1,801 |
| 5 | August 15, 2016 11:15 | August 15, 2016 13:30 | 2h 15m | 2,368 | 2,370 |
| 6 | November 9, 2016 15:45 | November 9, 2016 19:45 | 4h | 2,334 | 2,906 |
| 7 | January 15, 2016 13:15 | January 16, 2016 01:15 | 12h | 2,207 | 2,451 |
| 8 | May 29, 2016 21:45 | May 30, 2016 02:30 | 4h 45m | 2,192 | 1,296 |
| 9 | September 19, 2016 20:15 | September 19, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 2,181 | 2,728 |
| 10 | August 30, 2016 13:45 | August 30, 2016 20:30 | 6h 45m | 2,099 | 673 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 123 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.1 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 7.1 hrs | 3.90 | 4.4 hrs | 1.84 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/highlands-county