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2018 DeSoto County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in DeSoto County, FL went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1720th 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 DeSoto 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 18, 2018 11:45 | January 18, 2018 19:30 | 7h 45m | 2,841 | 1,860 |
| 2 | June 6, 2018 20:15 | June 7, 2018 08:45 | 12h 30m | 2,784 | 2,826 |
| 3 | March 20, 2018 20:30 | March 21, 2018 12:45 | 16h 15m | 2,712 | 1,573 |
| 4 | January 9, 2018 10:30 | January 9, 2018 15:30 | 5h | 2,593 | 666 |
| 5 | February 9, 2018 01:15 | February 9, 2018 02:30 | 1h 15m | 2,573 | 1,056 |
| 6 | May 3, 2018 20:00 | May 4, 2018 03:15 | 7h 15m | 2,541 | 3,037 |
| 7 | February 12, 2018 15:15 | February 12, 2018 15:30 | 15m | 1,883 | 471 |
| 8 | November 16, 2018 11:45 | November 16, 2018 17:15 | 5h 30m | 1,770 | 3,695 |
| 9 | July 29, 2018 19:00 | July 30, 2018 00:45 | 5h 45m | 1,460 | 1,899 |
| 10 | June 7, 2018 11:30 | June 8, 2018 00:45 | 13h 15m | 1,162 | 951 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 52 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 DeSoto 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.64 | 3.3 hrs | 2.41 |
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 ÷ 21,129 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. DeSoto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeSoto 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/desoto-county