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2017 DeSoto County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in DeSoto County, FL went without power for an average of 61.9 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 67 Florida counties and 44th 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 DeSoto 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 9, 2017 17:15 | September 21, 2017 18:00 | 12d | 29,686 | 1.3M |
| 2 | October 14, 2017 00:00 | October 14, 2017 00:30 | 30m | 2,472 | 619 |
| 3 | October 30, 2017 11:45 | October 30, 2017 18:15 | 6h 30m | 2,343 | 2,980 |
| 4 | February 27, 2017 07:15 | February 27, 2017 15:30 | 8h 15m | 1,904 | 564 |
| 5 | October 12, 2017 09:30 | October 12, 2017 17:30 | 8h | 1,899 | 735 |
| 6 | February 20, 2017 15:15 | February 20, 2017 21:00 | 5h 45m | 1,672 | 877 |
| 7 | June 6, 2017 10:30 | June 6, 2017 10:45 | 15m | 1,552 | 388 |
| 8 | January 21, 2017 20:15 | January 21, 2017 21:00 | 45m | 1,534 | 726 |
| 9 | August 28, 2017 11:30 | August 28, 2017 21:30 | 10h | 1,175 | 438 |
| 10 | June 3, 2017 02:45 | June 3, 2017 07:00 | 4h 15m | 1,003 | 838 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 66 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 DeSoto 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 56.6 hrs | 3.27 | 2.3 hrs | 1.47 |
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 ÷ 21,129 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. DeSoto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeSoto 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/desoto-county