County annual report · FIPS 12023
2019 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1332nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 19, 2019 11:30 | April 20, 2019 23:00 | 1d 11h | 12,844 | 51K |
| 2 | March 19, 2019 23:15 | March 20, 2019 02:15 | 3h | 4,517 | 12K |
| 3 | January 19, 2019 23:00 | January 20, 2019 01:45 | 2h 45m | 2,339 | 3,096 |
| 4 | March 2, 2019 13:45 | March 3, 2019 02:15 | 12h 30m | 2,204 | 2,909 |
| 5 | March 26, 2019 14:30 | March 26, 2019 15:30 | 1h | 2,053 | 1,540 |
| 6 | November 20, 2019 14:45 | November 21, 2019 15:00 | 1d | 1,944 | 642 |
| 7 | July 13, 2019 13:30 | July 14, 2019 04:45 | 15h 15m | 1,897 | 5,395 |
| 8 | June 4, 2019 13:45 | June 4, 2019 20:00 | 6h 15m | 1,823 | 782 |
| 9 | November 15, 2019 03:30 | November 15, 2019 18:45 | 15h 15m | 1,755 | 1,008 |
| 10 | December 12, 2019 18:45 | December 12, 2019 21:00 | 2h 15m | 1,669 | 1,062 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 102 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.22 | 2.1 hrs | 1.95 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 13.2 hrs | 4.79 | 3.7 hrs | 3.57 |
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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 38,562 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, FL annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/florida/columbia-county