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2018 Hillsborough County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hillsborough County, FL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Florida counties and 2181st 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 Hillsborough 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 | October 9, 2018 07:00 | October 12, 2018 07:45 | 3d | 23,752 | 29K |
| 2 | November 2, 2018 18:30 | November 2, 2018 20:00 | 1h 30m | 20,428 | 5,456 |
| 3 | August 2, 2018 11:00 | August 15, 2018 07:15 | 12d 20h | 13,967 | 72K |
| 4 | December 20, 2018 09:30 | December 23, 2018 04:15 | 2d 18h | 11,862 | 84K |
| 5 | April 10, 2018 11:45 | April 13, 2018 10:15 | 2d 22h | 11,017 | 30K |
| 6 | July 1, 2018 10:30 | July 9, 2018 09:15 | 7d 22h | 10,739 | 86K |
| 7 | June 23, 2018 20:15 | June 29, 2018 07:30 | 5d 11h | 9,251 | 47K |
| 8 | March 20, 2018 10:30 | March 21, 2018 08:30 | 22h | 9,214 | 13K |
| 9 | November 3, 2018 04:00 | November 5, 2018 05:15 | 2d 1h | 8,729 | 34K |
| 10 | September 8, 2018 03:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 6d 18h | 8,199 | 38K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 239 reached 100+ customers, 116 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Hillsborough 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.19 | 82 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 ÷ 998,906 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. Hillsborough County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hillsborough 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/hillsborough-county