County annual report · FIPS 12023
2020 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 245K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1184th 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 Columbia 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 13:00 | December 26, 2020 03:45 | 1d 14h | 12,414 | 45K |
| 2 | April 24, 2020 01:30 | April 24, 2020 11:30 | 10h | 8,070 | 4,304 |
| 3 | November 30, 2020 10:00 | November 30, 2020 21:15 | 11h 15m | 8,016 | 10K |
| 4 | June 23, 2020 16:15 | June 24, 2020 03:30 | 11h 15m | 4,088 | 5,406 |
| 5 | February 6, 2020 05:15 | February 8, 2020 02:45 | 1d 21h | 3,599 | 26K |
| 6 | November 9, 2020 17:30 | November 10, 2020 03:45 | 10h 15m | 2,325 | 2,341 |
| 7 | July 14, 2020 16:45 | July 15, 2020 00:15 | 7h 30m | 2,281 | 1,164 |
| 8 | March 18, 2020 07:45 | March 18, 2020 10:00 | 2h 15m | 2,268 | 4,538 |
| 9 | July 10, 2020 19:30 | July 11, 2020 16:15 | 20h 45m | 2,260 | 8,466 |
| 10 | February 8, 2020 08:45 | February 8, 2020 16:15 | 7h 30m | 2,058 | 6,696 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 114 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 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 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 5.6 hrs | 3.38 | 3.5 hrs | 2.84 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/columbia-county