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2018 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 181K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1106th 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 Columbia 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 | January 3, 2018 11:45 | January 5, 2018 08:45 | 1d 21h | 10,126 | 64K |
| 2 | November 3, 2018 09:00 | November 3, 2018 11:00 | 2h | 4,584 | 1,148 |
| 3 | December 14, 2018 12:15 | December 14, 2018 20:00 | 7h 45m | 4,233 | 1,119 |
| 4 | July 18, 2018 16:00 | July 18, 2018 21:45 | 5h 45m | 3,779 | 983 |
| 5 | August 17, 2018 20:15 | August 18, 2018 06:30 | 10h 15m | 3,229 | 6,860 |
| 6 | August 29, 2018 19:15 | August 30, 2018 08:30 | 13h 15m | 2,210 | 4,583 |
| 7 | April 9, 2018 09:15 | April 9, 2018 10:45 | 1h 30m | 1,991 | 2,987 |
| 8 | July 22, 2018 16:00 | July 23, 2018 13:00 | 21h | 1,894 | 11K |
| 9 | June 8, 2018 10:45 | June 9, 2018 12:45 | 1d 2h | 1,761 | 1,430 |
| 10 | July 24, 2018 06:45 | July 25, 2018 16:30 | 1d 9h | 1,723 | 2,929 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 99 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Columbia 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 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 13.2 hrs | 4.79 | 3.7 hrs | 3.57 |
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 ÷ 38,562 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia 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/columbia-county