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2018 Pinellas County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pinellas County, FL went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 1187th 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 Pinellas 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 20, 2018 05:15 | March 21, 2018 06:00 | 1d | 25,567 | 50K |
| 2 | October 29, 2018 11:15 | November 4, 2018 07:45 | 5d 20h | 15,191 | 81K |
| 3 | July 12, 2018 10:15 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 6d 13h | 14,298 | 47K |
| 4 | January 7, 2018 12:15 | January 8, 2018 05:30 | 17h 15m | 12,034 | 8,695 |
| 5 | December 19, 2018 08:15 | December 25, 2018 08:45 | 6d | 10,421 | 111K |
| 6 | January 1, 2018 18:15 | January 7, 2018 11:15 | 5d 17h | 10,027 | 45K |
| 7 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | July 28, 2018 09:00 | 9d 8h | 8,855 | 51K |
| 8 | August 22, 2018 11:15 | August 31, 2018 08:30 | 8d 21h | 6,396 | 114K |
| 9 | December 27, 2018 09:15 | December 30, 2018 08:00 | 2d 22h | 6,391 | 5,902 |
| 10 | June 23, 2018 10:15 | June 27, 2018 07:45 | 3d 21h | 5,877 | 27K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 167 reached 100+ customers, 83 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 Pinellas 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 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.19 | 82 min | 1.15 |
| 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 ÷ 361,147 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. Pinellas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pinellas 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/pinellas-county