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2017 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 37.3 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 126th 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 Columbia 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 13:30 | September 19, 2017 03:30 | 8d 14h | 44,341 | 1.2M |
| 2 | February 8, 2017 02:15 | February 10, 2017 07:15 | 2d 5h | 8,240 | 95K |
| 3 | April 4, 2017 03:15 | April 7, 2017 10:00 | 3d 6h | 7,429 | 29K |
| 4 | January 22, 2017 16:15 | January 24, 2017 11:00 | 1d 18h | 4,453 | 17K |
| 5 | January 21, 2017 17:00 | January 21, 2017 21:15 | 4h 15m | 4,056 | 5,098 |
| 6 | February 10, 2017 10:45 | February 11, 2017 02:30 | 15h 45m | 3,968 | 3,047 |
| 7 | July 30, 2017 11:00 | July 30, 2017 23:15 | 12h 15m | 3,888 | 2,733 |
| 8 | July 16, 2017 17:00 | July 17, 2017 02:45 | 9h 45m | 3,474 | 9,419 |
| 9 | July 13, 2017 12:30 | July 14, 2017 20:45 | 1d 8h | 2,604 | 4,225 |
| 10 | July 24, 2017 18:45 | July 24, 2017 19:00 | 15m | 2,269 | 567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 101 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 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 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 61.3 hrs | 5.28 | 4.0 hrs | 2.62 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/columbia-county