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2018 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 149K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1297th 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 Highlands 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 | March 11, 2018 09:15 | March 11, 2018 19:15 | 10h | 4,174 | 7,776 |
| 2 | January 29, 2018 11:15 | January 29, 2018 18:15 | 7h | 3,550 | 6,142 |
| 3 | January 18, 2018 12:15 | January 18, 2018 22:15 | 10h | 3,345 | 1,739 |
| 4 | March 20, 2018 13:30 | March 21, 2018 08:15 | 18h 45m | 2,927 | 3,782 |
| 5 | January 3, 2018 16:00 | January 4, 2018 11:15 | 19h 15m | 2,472 | 8,747 |
| 6 | March 10, 2018 22:45 | March 11, 2018 03:15 | 4h 30m | 2,118 | 1,601 |
| 7 | August 22, 2018 09:45 | August 23, 2018 03:45 | 18h | 1,992 | 1,359 |
| 8 | September 6, 2018 13:30 | September 6, 2018 23:30 | 10h | 1,979 | 1,516 |
| 9 | June 8, 2018 22:00 | June 9, 2018 04:45 | 6h 45m | 1,856 | 1,020 |
| 10 | February 25, 2018 16:45 | February 25, 2018 17:30 | 45m | 1,828 | 1,371 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 112 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Highlands 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.64 | 3.3 hrs | 2.41 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 10.4 hrs | 3.18 | 4.1 hrs | 2.05 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,050 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. Highlands County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highlands 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/highlands-county