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2020 Alachua County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Alachua County, FL went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 491K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2152nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alachua County, 2020
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 24, 2020 16:00 | December 26, 2020 05:45 | 1d 13h | 21,028 | 105K |
| 2 | December 1, 2020 09:00 | December 1, 2020 20:00 | 11h | 10,455 | 6,561 |
| 3 | October 27, 2020 13:15 | October 27, 2020 15:00 | 1h 45m | 9,856 | 3,307 |
| 4 | February 6, 2020 14:45 | February 8, 2020 21:30 | 2d 6h | 9,526 | 118K |
| 5 | May 1, 2020 13:15 | May 1, 2020 20:15 | 7h | 7,119 | 1,790 |
| 6 | September 7, 2020 12:45 | September 7, 2020 17:15 | 4h 30m | 6,502 | 7,831 |
| 7 | May 8, 2020 09:00 | May 8, 2020 11:15 | 2h 15m | 6,294 | 2,390 |
| 8 | April 18, 2020 11:45 | April 18, 2020 18:00 | 6h 15m | 4,898 | 12K |
| 9 | May 5, 2020 14:15 | May 5, 2020 23:00 | 8h 45m | 4,887 | 1,260 |
| 10 | April 14, 2020 05:30 | April 15, 2020 14:45 | 1d 9h | 4,577 | 4,691 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 202 reached 100+ customers, 63 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 Alachua County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 70 min | 0.75 | 49 min | 0.59 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.27 | 1.6 hrs | 1.16 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2020 | 11.4 hrs | 4.76 | 4.4 hrs | 3.25 |
| Central Florida Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 5.3 hrs | 4.23 | 3.3 hrs | 3.39 |
| Gainesville Regional Utilities | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.57 | 58 min | 1.09 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alachua - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Newberry - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 218,548 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. Alachua County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alachua County, FL annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/florida/alachua-county