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2019 Hernando County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hernando County, FL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 280K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1810th 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 Hernando 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 | October 18, 2019 19:30 | October 18, 2019 21:45 | 2h 15m | 26,419 | 22K |
| 2 | October 16, 2019 12:30 | October 18, 2019 15:15 | 2d 2h | 10,105 | 7,522 |
| 3 | April 1, 2019 11:30 | April 1, 2019 21:15 | 9h 45m | 8,332 | 7,739 |
| 4 | May 5, 2019 11:15 | May 7, 2019 01:15 | 1d 14h | 7,912 | 30K |
| 5 | June 19, 2019 16:45 | June 20, 2019 09:15 | 16h 30m | 6,977 | 12K |
| 6 | February 27, 2019 13:00 | February 27, 2019 14:00 | 1h | 6,805 | 6,797 |
| 7 | February 17, 2019 21:00 | February 18, 2019 01:45 | 4h 45m | 6,800 | 6,819 |
| 8 | May 2, 2019 11:00 | May 3, 2019 03:00 | 16h | 5,261 | 5,053 |
| 9 | April 19, 2019 12:15 | April 20, 2019 07:30 | 19h 15m | 4,944 | 11K |
| 10 | January 24, 2019 09:45 | January 24, 2019 21:30 | 11h 45m | 4,381 | 8,087 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 130 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Hernando 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | 1.38 | 1.9 hrs | 1.20 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.86 | 2.2 hrs | 1.86 |
| Sumter Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 108,453 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. Hernando County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hernando 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/hernando-county