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2022 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 96.6 hours, a total of 3.8M customer-hours (Florida average 20.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 67 Florida counties and 28th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Highlands County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 28, 2022 08:30 | October 8, 2022 22:00 | 10d 13h | 50,689 | 3.6M |
| 2 | September 17, 2022 12:00 | September 18, 2022 07:15 | 19h 15m | 8,618 | 9,473 |
| 3 | November 9, 2022 18:15 | November 11, 2022 07:30 | 1d 13h | 5,067 | 17K |
| 4 | July 13, 2022 22:00 | July 14, 2022 07:45 | 9h 45m | 2,754 | 2,958 |
| 5 | June 30, 2022 19:00 | July 1, 2022 06:00 | 11h | 2,566 | 3,884 |
| 6 | September 7, 2022 16:00 | September 7, 2022 20:45 | 4h 45m | 2,287 | 708 |
| 7 | June 29, 2022 08:45 | June 29, 2022 20:00 | 11h 15m | 2,052 | 4,119 |
| 8 | November 8, 2022 13:00 | November 9, 2022 00:45 | 11h 45m | 1,971 | 2,396 |
| 9 | March 12, 2022 12:00 | March 13, 2022 08:30 | 20h 30m | 1,922 | 5,052 |
| 10 | June 19, 2022 21:45 | June 20, 2022 01:15 | 3h 30m | 1,919 | 3,727 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 113 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Highlands County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 19.2 hrs | 1.11 | 48 min | 0.55 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2022 | 14.5 hrs | 1.74 | 1.6 hrs | 1.09 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 24.8 hrs | 2.02 | 2.9 hrs | 1.50 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 73.2 hrs | 2.57 | 5.1 hrs | 2.09 |
| 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 98% of Florida's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/florida/highlands-county