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2020 Hernando County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hernando County, FL went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 230K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2205th 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 Hernando 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 25, 2020 00:00 | December 26, 2020 02:15 | 1d 2h | 12,584 | 46K |
| 2 | August 24, 2020 13:00 | August 25, 2020 06:00 | 17h | 6,791 | 6,689 |
| 3 | August 5, 2020 14:00 | August 6, 2020 02:30 | 12h 30m | 4,709 | 5,526 |
| 4 | July 11, 2020 16:15 | July 11, 2020 23:15 | 7h | 4,567 | 10K |
| 5 | January 9, 2020 16:00 | January 9, 2020 20:00 | 4h | 4,480 | 2,248 |
| 6 | April 19, 2020 13:30 | April 19, 2020 18:15 | 4h 45m | 2,784 | 2,364 |
| 7 | January 8, 2020 17:45 | January 9, 2020 02:30 | 8h 45m | 2,780 | 706 |
| 8 | September 16, 2020 17:00 | September 17, 2020 00:00 | 7h | 2,492 | 1,883 |
| 9 | June 13, 2020 03:00 | June 13, 2020 09:15 | 6h 15m | 2,288 | 3,064 |
| 10 | March 18, 2020 14:15 | March 18, 2020 21:30 | 7h 15m | 2,115 | 1,646 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 125 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 Hernando 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.27 | 1.6 hrs | 1.16 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.68 | 1.6 hrs | 1.57 |
| Sumter Electric 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 ÷ 108,453 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. Hernando County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hernando 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/hernando-county