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2023 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 30.3 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 67 Florida counties and 236th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 29, 2023 22:30 | September 11, 2023 19:00 | 12d 20h | 30,854 | 1.0M |
| 2 | April 27, 2023 18:45 | April 28, 2023 22:00 | 1d 3h | 4,252 | 8,024 |
| 3 | April 16, 2023 03:30 | April 16, 2023 23:00 | 19h 30m | 2,577 | 10K |
| 4 | July 22, 2023 17:30 | July 23, 2023 22:45 | 1d 5h | 2,442 | 2,831 |
| 5 | December 30, 2023 10:15 | December 30, 2023 11:15 | 1h | 2,321 | 2,321 |
| 6 | July 28, 2023 15:15 | July 28, 2023 16:30 | 1h 15m | 2,181 | 1,636 |
| 7 | June 14, 2023 23:45 | June 15, 2023 10:45 | 11h | 2,010 | 3,494 |
| 8 | June 16, 2023 07:30 | June 18, 2023 21:30 | 2d 14h | 1,884 | 8,377 |
| 9 | September 20, 2023 08:00 | September 20, 2023 09:15 | 1h 15m | 1,770 | 982 |
| 10 | April 9, 2023 18:00 | April 9, 2023 19:45 | 1h 45m | 1,723 | 866 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 117 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 78 min | 0.64 | 50 min | 0.51 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.08 | 84 min | 0.96 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2023 | 11.6 hrs | 3.33 | 3.9 hrs | 2.79 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 113.8 hrs | 6.86 | 5.7 hrs | 4.08 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Florida's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 38,562 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, FL annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/florida/columbia-county