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2018 Broward County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Broward County, FL went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2152nd 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 Broward 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 | February 6, 2018 12:45 | February 11, 2018 12:45 | 5d | 27,579 | 23K |
| 2 | April 24, 2018 11:15 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 30d 12h | 26,980 | 183K |
| 3 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | October 29, 2018 10:30 | 44d 6h | 21,907 | 199K |
| 4 | March 23, 2018 12:15 | April 24, 2018 10:15 | 31d 22h | 20,337 | 179K |
| 5 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | July 5, 2018 05:45 | 40d 19h | 14,838 | 291K |
| 6 | November 23, 2018 12:15 | December 25, 2018 10:15 | 31d 22h | 9,886 | 145K |
| 7 | August 18, 2018 13:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 27d 8h | 8,762 | 121K |
| 8 | January 1, 2018 00:00 | January 17, 2018 11:15 | 16d 11h | 8,182 | 77K |
| 9 | October 29, 2018 12:30 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 11d 23h | 7,339 | 65K |
| 10 | July 5, 2018 06:45 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 13d 16h | 7,183 | 93K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 26 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Broward 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 |
| Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) | 2017 | 102.8 hrs | 8.57 | 76 min | 1.15 |
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 ÷ 1,298,256 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. Broward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Broward 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/broward-county