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2018 Manatee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Manatee County, FL went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 437K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2023rd 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 Manatee 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 | December 20, 2018 04:30 | December 23, 2018 03:30 | 2d 23h | 9,877 | 38K |
| 2 | May 24, 2018 20:45 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 2h 30m | 9,085 | 3,755 |
| 3 | August 27, 2018 12:00 | August 29, 2018 05:15 | 1d 17h | 8,043 | 7,509 |
| 4 | July 2, 2018 23:15 | July 5, 2018 07:00 | 2d 7h | 7,119 | 20K |
| 5 | September 23, 2018 21:15 | September 26, 2018 05:00 | 2d 7h | 5,216 | 13K |
| 6 | August 19, 2018 09:30 | August 19, 2018 12:00 | 2h 30m | 4,940 | 11K |
| 7 | November 2, 2018 08:30 | November 3, 2018 08:00 | 23h 30m | 4,803 | 7,548 |
| 8 | July 30, 2018 02:30 | July 31, 2018 23:45 | 1d 21h | 4,641 | 4,532 |
| 9 | May 29, 2018 12:15 | May 31, 2018 02:00 | 1d 13h | 4,573 | 7,603 |
| 10 | May 9, 2018 11:15 | May 10, 2018 07:00 | 19h 45m | 4,518 | 2,684 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 199 reached 100+ customers, 76 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 Manatee 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 ÷ 266,408 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. Manatee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Manatee 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/manatee-county