County annual report · FIPS 12033
2020 Escambia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Escambia County, FL went without power for an average of 66.1 hours, a total of 12.0M customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 67 Florida counties and 116th 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 Escambia 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 | September 15, 2020 01:30 | October 2, 2020 03:45 | 17d 2h | 156,882 | 11.5M |
| 2 | October 28, 2020 10:30 | October 31, 2020 03:15 | 2d 16h | 22,143 | 217K |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 14:00 | July 12, 2020 11:15 | 21h 15m | 7,949 | 8,299 |
| 4 | November 6, 2020 12:30 | November 7, 2020 21:00 | 1d 8h | 5,735 | 2,709 |
| 5 | July 9, 2020 12:30 | July 10, 2020 03:15 | 14h 45m | 5,498 | 3,989 |
| 6 | June 6, 2020 11:30 | June 9, 2020 12:00 | 3d | 5,198 | 38K |
| 7 | August 14, 2020 09:45 | August 15, 2020 21:30 | 1d 11h | 3,008 | 6,662 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 17:45 | December 24, 2020 23:45 | 6h | 2,740 | 1,121 |
| 9 | August 25, 2020 09:00 | August 26, 2020 00:30 | 15h 30m | 2,584 | 1,368 |
| 10 | October 14, 2020 11:30 | October 15, 2020 01:45 | 14h 15m | 2,555 | 4,918 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 144 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Escambia 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 |
| Escambia River Elec 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 180,891 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. Escambia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Escambia 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/escambia-county