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2020 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1825th 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 Highlands 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 | April 27, 2020 18:00 | April 27, 2020 21:45 | 3h 45m | 4,623 | 5,882 |
| 2 | April 16, 2020 07:00 | April 16, 2020 15:45 | 8h 45m | 3,209 | 6,167 |
| 3 | June 19, 2020 18:30 | June 20, 2020 00:15 | 5h 45m | 2,971 | 2,157 |
| 4 | February 12, 2020 13:15 | February 12, 2020 21:15 | 8h | 2,577 | 3,890 |
| 5 | May 22, 2020 21:00 | May 22, 2020 23:00 | 2h | 2,550 | 1,276 |
| 6 | May 14, 2020 18:45 | May 14, 2020 21:15 | 2h 30m | 2,549 | 1,928 |
| 7 | May 27, 2020 13:30 | May 27, 2020 23:15 | 9h 45m | 2,523 | 1,532 |
| 8 | February 14, 2020 14:30 | February 14, 2020 22:15 | 7h 45m | 2,336 | 1,827 |
| 9 | May 25, 2020 09:15 | May 25, 2020 15:30 | 6h 15m | 2,310 | 3,595 |
| 10 | May 18, 2020 17:00 | May 18, 2020 21:45 | 4h 45m | 2,194 | 1,652 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 117 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Highlands 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.72 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 4.9 hrs | 3.10 | 4.9 hrs | 3.10 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,050 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. Highlands County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highlands 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/highlands-county