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2020 Hillsborough County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hillsborough County, FL went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2598th 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 Hillsborough 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 | May 27, 2020 11:45 | May 28, 2020 07:00 | 19h 15m | 16,420 | 17K |
| 2 | February 6, 2020 11:15 | February 10, 2020 02:30 | 3d 15h | 13,652 | 72K |
| 3 | September 27, 2020 15:15 | September 29, 2020 04:15 | 1d 13h | 10,417 | 9,280 |
| 4 | April 18, 2020 11:45 | April 19, 2020 06:30 | 18h 45m | 10,242 | 15K |
| 5 | May 3, 2020 09:30 | May 4, 2020 06:30 | 21h | 9,785 | 6,918 |
| 6 | May 22, 2020 11:30 | May 24, 2020 08:30 | 1d 21h | 8,683 | 14K |
| 7 | April 23, 2020 09:15 | April 24, 2020 05:15 | 20h | 8,634 | 5,142 |
| 8 | March 8, 2020 01:00 | March 8, 2020 06:30 | 5h 30m | 8,118 | 16K |
| 9 | October 11, 2020 07:15 | October 12, 2020 02:15 | 19h | 7,736 | 28K |
| 10 | August 18, 2020 08:45 | August 19, 2020 04:00 | 19h 15m | 7,562 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 267 reached 100+ customers, 135 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Hillsborough 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.72 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2020 | 79 min | 1.23 | 75 min | 0.95 |
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 ÷ 998,906 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. Hillsborough County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hillsborough 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/hillsborough-county