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2019 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 167K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1261st 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 Highlands 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 | February 9, 2019 05:30 | February 9, 2019 06:30 | 1h | 5,637 | 3,775 |
| 2 | February 26, 2019 14:45 | February 27, 2019 01:30 | 10h 45m | 4,677 | 9,617 |
| 3 | July 30, 2019 20:15 | July 31, 2019 17:15 | 21h | 3,856 | 5,793 |
| 4 | April 5, 2019 23:00 | April 6, 2019 11:45 | 12h 45m | 3,793 | 3,669 |
| 5 | April 9, 2019 06:30 | April 9, 2019 08:15 | 1h 45m | 3,787 | 1,894 |
| 6 | August 11, 2019 19:00 | August 12, 2019 00:45 | 5h 45m | 3,156 | 5,024 |
| 7 | December 28, 2019 14:00 | December 29, 2019 02:00 | 12h | 2,811 | 4,022 |
| 8 | June 19, 2019 10:15 | June 19, 2019 14:15 | 4h | 2,680 | 6,033 |
| 9 | March 16, 2019 11:45 | March 17, 2019 02:45 | 15h | 2,345 | 2,644 |
| 10 | August 7, 2019 16:45 | August 8, 2019 02:15 | 9h 30m | 2,157 | 1,858 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 128 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Highlands 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.64 | 3.3 hrs | 2.41 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 10.4 hrs | 3.18 | 4.1 hrs | 2.05 |
| 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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 39,050 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. Highlands County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highlands 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/highlands-county