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2017 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 220.4 hours, a total of 8.6M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 67 Florida counties and 4th 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 Highlands 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 00:15 | September 29, 2017 02:30 | 19d 2h | 52,875 | 8.5M |
| 2 | June 13, 2017 18:45 | June 14, 2017 03:00 | 8h 15m | 8,878 | 6,887 |
| 3 | April 27, 2017 21:30 | April 28, 2017 01:30 | 4h | 3,277 | 8,841 |
| 4 | May 15, 2017 22:30 | May 15, 2017 23:30 | 1h | 2,936 | 749 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 19:15 | May 2, 2017 04:30 | 9h 15m | 2,515 | 4,024 |
| 6 | June 1, 2017 11:30 | June 2, 2017 00:30 | 13h | 2,192 | 1,252 |
| 7 | June 20, 2017 19:45 | June 20, 2017 22:15 | 2h 30m | 2,188 | 1,450 |
| 8 | August 26, 2017 00:00 | August 26, 2017 05:30 | 5h 30m | 1,954 | 1,551 |
| 9 | December 11, 2017 10:30 | December 11, 2017 21:30 | 11h | 1,877 | 1,920 |
| 10 | October 6, 2017 17:45 | October 6, 2017 21:00 | 3h 15m | 1,840 | 1,950 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 93 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Highlands 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 56.6 hrs | 3.27 | 2.3 hrs | 1.47 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 274.5 hrs | 4.96 | 3.2 hrs | 1.90 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/highlands-county