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2021 Alachua County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Alachua County, FL went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 262K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2589th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alachua County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 6, 2021 22:00 | February 7, 2021 22:15 | 1d | 6,309 | 13K |
| 2 | October 31, 2021 18:15 | November 1, 2021 01:00 | 6h 45m | 6,186 | 3,459 |
| 3 | December 1, 2021 13:45 | December 1, 2021 19:30 | 5h 45m | 5,134 | 3,055 |
| 4 | November 30, 2021 10:45 | November 30, 2021 18:15 | 7h 30m | 5,132 | 10K |
| 5 | December 16, 2021 15:15 | December 16, 2021 22:45 | 7h 30m | 4,353 | 7,201 |
| 6 | January 14, 2021 17:45 | January 14, 2021 20:00 | 2h 15m | 4,232 | 1,459 |
| 7 | August 11, 2021 01:30 | August 11, 2021 22:15 | 20h 45m | 3,617 | 8,562 |
| 8 | January 19, 2021 20:45 | January 20, 2021 00:15 | 3h 30m | 3,371 | 1,689 |
| 9 | July 7, 2021 06:45 | July 9, 2021 00:15 | 1d 17h | 3,305 | 29K |
| 10 | November 19, 2021 08:30 | November 19, 2021 12:30 | 4h | 3,297 | 2,769 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 172 reached 100+ customers, 53 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 Alachua County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 55 min | 0.58 | 45 min | 0.51 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 | 90 min | 1.00 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 2.92 | 3.3 hrs | 2.92 |
| Central Florida Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 3.8 hrs | 3.40 | 3.4 hrs | 3.39 |
| Gainesville Regional Utilities | 2021 | 78 min | 1.47 | 78 min | 1.47 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alachua - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Newberry - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 98% of Florida's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 218,548 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. Alachua County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alachua County, FL annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/florida/alachua-county