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2021 Hernando County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hernando County, FL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 139K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2557th 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 Hernando 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 | July 17, 2021 13:15 | July 17, 2021 18:30 | 5h 15m | 4,154 | 9,434 |
| 2 | October 28, 2021 12:45 | October 29, 2021 03:45 | 15h | 3,119 | 9,969 |
| 3 | June 8, 2021 23:15 | June 9, 2021 04:45 | 5h 30m | 3,046 | 2,793 |
| 4 | March 22, 2021 12:15 | March 22, 2021 19:30 | 7h 15m | 2,942 | 2,927 |
| 5 | February 9, 2021 13:15 | February 9, 2021 18:45 | 5h 30m | 2,823 | 715 |
| 6 | January 24, 2021 23:30 | January 25, 2021 09:00 | 9h 30m | 2,817 | 9,036 |
| 7 | July 23, 2021 22:45 | July 24, 2021 02:45 | 4h | 2,213 | 1,436 |
| 8 | October 19, 2021 14:45 | October 19, 2021 20:30 | 5h 45m | 2,200 | 2,498 |
| 9 | February 2, 2021 13:45 | February 2, 2021 17:15 | 3h 30m | 2,105 | 1,587 |
| 10 | June 28, 2021 07:00 | June 29, 2021 00:45 | 17h 45m | 1,900 | 2,449 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 112 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Hernando 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 | 90 min | 1.00 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 1.49 | 1.8 hrs | 1.49 |
| 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 98% of Florida's customers in 2021; 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, 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/hernando-county