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2017 Alachua County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Alachua County, FL went without power for an average of 16.0 hours, a total of 3.5M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 67 Florida counties and 348th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alachua County, 2017
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 10, 2017 08:15 | September 26, 2017 20:15 | 16d 12h | 67,722 | 3.2M |
| 2 | April 25, 2017 09:15 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 22d 8h | 8,826 | 22K |
| 3 | February 8, 2017 02:45 | February 9, 2017 16:15 | 1d 13h | 8,078 | 45K |
| 4 | August 9, 2017 17:30 | August 10, 2017 01:45 | 8h 15m | 6,272 | 9,750 |
| 5 | April 2, 2017 11:00 | April 22, 2017 11:15 | 20d | 4,254 | 18K |
| 6 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 15d 13h | 3,785 | 21K |
| 7 | February 7, 2017 18:15 | February 7, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 3,661 | 1,272 |
| 8 | August 6, 2017 13:30 | August 6, 2017 19:30 | 6h | 3,335 | 6,272 |
| 9 | January 22, 2017 14:15 | January 23, 2017 22:30 | 1d 8h | 2,537 | 18K |
| 10 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 18, 2017 02:45 | 10d 15h | 2,262 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 93 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Alachua County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 66.0 hrs | 2.00 | 59 min | 0.69 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 1.31 | 1.6 hrs | 1.25 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2017 | 7.3 hrs | 3.52 | 3.3 hrs | 3.24 |
| Central Florida Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 22.1 hrs | - | 3.1 hrs | - |
| Gainesville Regional Utilities | 2017 | 16.7 hrs | 1.81 | 56 min | 0.92 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/florida/alachua-county