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2018 Alachua County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Alachua County, FL went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 330K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2085th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alachua County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 12, 2018 00:45 | May 12, 2018 11:00 | 10h 15m | 7,589 | 5,775 |
| 2 | July 22, 2018 13:00 | July 24, 2018 02:30 | 1d 13h | 6,931 | 25K |
| 3 | August 11, 2018 11:45 | August 11, 2018 17:00 | 5h 15m | 5,089 | 3,840 |
| 4 | April 22, 2018 23:15 | May 10, 2018 22:45 | 17d 23h | 4,528 | 9,734 |
| 5 | March 22, 2018 12:15 | March 22, 2018 20:15 | 8h | 3,541 | 990 |
| 6 | March 20, 2018 12:15 | March 21, 2018 02:30 | 14h 15m | 3,528 | 3,914 |
| 7 | April 15, 2018 15:15 | April 22, 2018 16:15 | 7d 1h | 3,075 | 13K |
| 8 | March 19, 2018 10:30 | March 20, 2018 10:45 | 1d | 2,903 | 13K |
| 9 | April 5, 2018 19:45 | April 13, 2018 19:15 | 7d 23h | 2,836 | 33K |
| 10 | August 2, 2018 17:45 | August 9, 2018 01:15 | 6d 7h | 2,537 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 145 reached 100+ customers, 52 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 60 min | 0.71 | 55 min | 0.65 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.38 | 1.9 hrs | 1.20 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.22 | 2.1 hrs | 1.95 |
| Central Florida Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | - | 3.2 hrs | - |
| Gainesville Regional Utilities | 2018 | 58 min | 1.20 | 42 min | 1.02 |
| 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 97% of Florida's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/florida/alachua-county