County annual report · FIPS 12057
2017 Hillsborough County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hillsborough County, FL went without power for an average of 18.7 hours, a total of 18.7M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 295th 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 Hillsborough 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 14:00 | September 24, 2017 08:00 | 14d 18h | 257,105 | 17.7M |
| 2 | December 13, 2017 12:30 | December 14, 2017 09:45 | 21h 15m | 8,789 | 17K |
| 3 | July 10, 2017 10:45 | July 12, 2017 06:30 | 1d 19h | 7,367 | 32K |
| 4 | April 22, 2017 18:00 | April 23, 2017 07:15 | 13h 15m | 7,100 | 12K |
| 5 | February 9, 2017 12:15 | February 10, 2017 07:00 | 18h 45m | 7,027 | 7,643 |
| 6 | February 27, 2017 06:15 | February 27, 2017 09:45 | 3h 30m | 6,567 | 12K |
| 7 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 22, 2017 09:30 | 4d 14h | 6,442 | 30K |
| 8 | January 22, 2017 16:00 | January 24, 2017 09:45 | 1d 17h | 6,183 | 41K |
| 9 | July 14, 2017 09:45 | July 17, 2017 04:45 | 2d 19h | 6,069 | 7,159 |
| 10 | June 21, 2017 11:45 | June 24, 2017 06:15 | 2d 18h | 5,541 | 9,857 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 252 reached 100+ customers, 130 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 Hillsborough 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2017 | 87 min | 1.33 | 87 min | 1.33 |
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 ÷ 998,906 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. Hillsborough County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hillsborough 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/hillsborough-county