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2020 DeSoto County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in DeSoto County, FL went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2340th 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 DeSoto 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 | August 24, 2020 20:15 | August 25, 2020 04:15 | 8h | 3,046 | 2,291 |
| 2 | October 16, 2020 00:30 | October 16, 2020 01:30 | 1h | 2,653 | 1,552 |
| 3 | April 8, 2020 13:15 | April 8, 2020 19:00 | 5h 45m | 2,628 | 1,328 |
| 4 | November 30, 2020 15:15 | November 30, 2020 21:00 | 5h 45m | 2,554 | 921 |
| 5 | August 17, 2020 04:00 | August 18, 2020 02:30 | 22h 30m | 2,513 | 2,237 |
| 6 | December 16, 2020 18:15 | December 16, 2020 18:30 | 15m | 2,016 | 504 |
| 7 | March 3, 2020 20:00 | March 3, 2020 20:15 | 15m | 1,908 | 477 |
| 8 | July 27, 2020 12:15 | July 30, 2020 04:30 | 2d 16h | 1,544 | 1,198 |
| 9 | August 31, 2020 16:30 | September 1, 2020 05:45 | 13h 15m | 1,368 | 2,654 |
| 10 | October 4, 2020 21:15 | October 4, 2020 21:30 | 15m | 1,080 | 270 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 DeSoto 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.72 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
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 ÷ 21,129 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. DeSoto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeSoto 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/desoto-county